Greek medicine from Hippocrates to Galen : selected papers / by Jacques Jouanna ; edited with a preface by Philip van der Eijk, translated by Neil Allies.

Works. Selections. English. 2012

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

xix, 403 pages ; 24 cm.

Articles originally published in French.

Includes index.

Part One. Classical Greek medicine in its Historical, Literary and Cultural Context -- Egyptian Medicine and Greek Medicine -- Politics and Medicine : The Problem of Change in Regimen in Acute Diseases and Thucydides (Book 6) -- Rhetoric and Medicine in the Hippocratic Corpus : A Contribution to the History of Rhetoric in the Fifth Century -- Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy -- Disease as Aggression in the Hippocratic Corpus and Greek Tragedy : Wild and Devouring Disease -- Hippocrates and the Sacred -- Part Two. Aspects of Hippocratic Medicine and Their Relationship to Greek Philosophical Thought -- Air, Miasma and Contagion in the Time of Hippocrates and the Survival of Miasmas in Post-Hippocratic Medicine (Rufus of Ephesus, Galen and Palladius) -- Dietetics in Hippocratic Medicine : Definition, Main Problems, Discussion -- Water, Health and Disease in the Hippocratic Treatise Airs, Waters, Places -- Wine and Medicine in Ancient Greece -- The Theory of Sensation, Thought and the Soul in the Hippocratic Treatise -- Regimen : Its Connections with Empedocles and Plato's Timaeus -- At the Roots of Melancholy : Is Greek Medicine Melancholic? -- Part Three. The Reception of Hippocratic Medicine in Galen and in Late Antiquity -- Galen's Reading of Hippocratic Ethics -- Galen's Concept of Nature -- Galen's Reading of the Hippocratic Treatise The Nature of Man : The Foundations of Hippocratism in Galen -- The Legacy of the Hippocratic Treatise The Nature of Man : The Theory of the Four Humours.