Title: Epidemics in context
Description: "The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen's Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. However, they also illustrate the rich exegetical traditions that existed in the post-classical Greek world. The present volume investigates these texts from various and diverse vantage points: textual criticism; Greek philology; knowledge transfer through translations; and medical history. Especially the Syriac and Arabic traditions of the Epidemics come under scrutiny."--
Subjects: Arab Medicine, Greek and Roman Medicine, Hippocrates, Medicine, greek and roman, Medicine, arab, Criticism and interpretation, Disease Outbreaks, Ancient History, Greek World, Arabic Medicine
People: Hippocrates