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Studies in ancient medicine

xxii, 313 pages, 7 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Galen on the brain : anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD / by Julius Rocca.

Homo patiens : approaches to the patient in the ancient world / edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger.

This book offers the first extended study published in English on the Hippocratic treatise 'On regimen', one of the most important pre-Platonic documents of the discussion of human nature and other topics at the intersection of ancient medicine and philosophy. It is not only a unique example of classical Greek dietetic literature, including the most elaborated account of the micro-macrocosm and phusis-techne analogies, but it also provides the most explicit discussion of the soul-body opposition preceding Plato. Moreover, Barto&#x9A; argues, it is a rare example of an extant medical text which systematically draws on philosophical authorities, such as Heraclitus, Empedocles and Anaxagoras, and which had a decisive influence on both physicians, such as Galen, and philosophers, most notably Plato and Aristotle.

Philosophy and dietetics in the Hippocratic On regimen : a delicate balance of health / by Hynek Bartoš.

Pseudepigraphic writings / Hippocrates ; edited and translated with an introduction by Wesley D. Smith.

Text and tradition : studies in ancient medicine and its transmission presented to Jutta Kollesch / edited by Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Diethard Nickel, Paul Potter.

Hippocrates, On the art of medicine / by Joel E. Mann.

Constantine the African and ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās al-Magūsī : the Pantegni and related texts / edited by Charles Burnett and Danielle Jacquart.

"This volume provides a set of in-depth case studies about the role of questions and answers (Q&A) in ancient Greek medical writing from its Hippocratic beginnings up to, and including, Late Antiquity. The use of Q&A formulas is widely attested in ancient Greek medical texts, casting an intriguing light on its relevance for the medical art at large, and for ancient medical practice, education, and research in specific (diagnostics, didactics, dialectics). The book aims to break new grounds by exploring, for the first time, the wide complexity of this phenomenon while introducing a coherent approach. In so doing, it not only covers highly specialized medical treatises but also non-canonical authors and texts, including anonymous papyrus fragments and collections of problems"--

xi, 242 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.

Ancient Greek medicine in questions and answers : diagnostics, didactics, dialectics / edited by Michiel Meeusen.

Ancient concepts of the Hippocratic : papers presented at the XIIIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, Austin, Texas, August 2008 / edited by Lesley Dean-Jones and Ralph M. Rosen.

In 'Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina' a detailed account is given, by a range of experts in the field, of the development of different conceptualizations of the mind and its pathology by medical authors from the beginning of the imperial period to the seventh century CE.0New analysis is offered, both of the dominant texts of Galen and of such important but neglected figures as Rufus, Archigenes, Athenaeus of Attalia, Aretaeus, Caelius Aurelianus and the Byzantine 'compilers'. The work of these authors is considered both in its medical-historical context and in relation to philosophical and theological debates - on ethics and on the nature of the soul - with which they interacted.

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Galen on the brain : anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD / by Julius Rocca.

Homo patiens : approaches to the patient in the ancient world / edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger.

Philosophy and dietetics in the Hippocratic On regimen : a delicate balance of health / by Hynek Bartoš.

Pseudepigraphic writings / Hippocrates ; edited and translated with an introduction by Wesley D. Smith.

Text and tradition : studies in ancient medicine and its transmission presented to Jutta Kollesch / edited by Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Diethard Nickel, Paul Potter.

Hippocrates, On the art of medicine / by Joel E. Mann.

Constantine the African and ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās al-Magūsī : the Pantegni and related texts / edited by Charles Burnett and Danielle Jacquart.

Ancient Greek medicine in questions and answers : diagnostics, didactics, dialectics / edited by Michiel Meeusen.

Ancient concepts of the Hippocratic : papers presented at the XIIIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, Austin, Texas, August 2008 / edited by Lesley Dean-Jones and Ralph M. Rosen.

Mental illness in ancient medicine : from Celsus to Paul of Aegina / edited by Chiara Thumiger and P. N. Singer.

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Galen on the brain : anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD / by Julius Rocca.

Homo patiens : approaches to the patient in the ancient world / edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger.

Philosophy and dietetics in the Hippocratic On regimen : a delicate balance of health / by Hynek Bartoš.

Pseudepigraphic writings / Hippocrates ; edited and translated with an introduction by Wesley D. Smith.

Text and tradition : studies in ancient medicine and its transmission presented to Jutta Kollesch / edited by Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Diethard Nickel, Paul Potter.

Hippocrates, On the art of medicine / by Joel E. Mann.

Constantine the African and ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās al-Magūsī : the Pantegni and related texts / edited by Charles Burnett and Danielle Jacquart.

Ancient Greek medicine in questions and answers : diagnostics, didactics, dialectics / edited by Michiel Meeusen.

Ancient concepts of the Hippocratic : papers presented at the XIIIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, Austin, Texas, August 2008 / edited by Lesley Dean-Jones and Ralph M. Rosen.

Mental illness in ancient medicine : from Celsus to Paul of Aegina / edited by Chiara Thumiger and P. N. Singer.

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