The unknown Galen / edited by Vivian Nutton.

London : Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2002.

viii, 179 pages ; 25 cm.

Papers delivered at a joint symposium of the Institute of Classical Studies and the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, held in 1999 and entitled: The Unknown Galen: Galen beyond Kühn.

In defense of Kühn / Vivian Nutton -- Galen's On my own books : new material from Meshed, Rida, tibb. 5223 / Véronique Boudon -- Division, dissection, and specialization : Galen's On the parts of the medical techne / Heinrich von Staden -- The contribution of Galen : De subtiliante diaeta (On the thinning diet) / John Wilkins -- Pre-stoic hypothetical syllogistic in Galen's Institution logica / Susanne Bobzien -- On the authenticity of an excerpt from Galen's Commentary on the Timaeus / Diethard Nickel -- Galen On the unclear movements / Armelle Debru -- The brain beyond Kühn : reflections on Anatomical procedures, book IX / Julius Rocca -- The pathology of pregnancy in Galen's Commentaries on the Epidemics / Rebecca Flemming -- The uses of Galen in Arabic literature / Gotthard Strohmaier -- Galen's lost Ophthalmology and the Summaria Alexandrinorum / Emilie Savage-Smith -- The reception of Galen in Maimonides' Medical aphorisms / Gerrit Bos -- The lost Latin Galen / Michael McVaugh.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Includes a short bibliography of previously unknown works of Galen (p. 165-168).