Greek medicine from Hippocrates to Galen
Subtitle: selected papers
By: by Jacques Jouanna
Series: Studies in ancient medicine -- v. 40
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9789004208599; 9789004232549
Subjects: Philosophy; Greek and Roman Medicine; History
Work titles: Selections
Description: "This volume makes available for the first time in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on medicine in the Graeco-Roman world. The papers cover more than thirty years of Jouanna's scholarship and range from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity. Part One studies the ways in which Greek medicine is related to its historical and cultural background (politics, rhetoric, drama, religion). Part Two studies a number of salient features of Hippocratic medicine, such as dietetics, theories of health and disease and concepts of psychosomatic interaction, in relation to Greek philosophical thought. Part Three studies the reception of Hippocratic medicine, especially medical ethics and the theory of the four humours, in Galen and in late antiquity"P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Articles originally published in French.

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