Greek Rational Medicine

Greek Rational Medicine

Author: James Longrigg

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 041502594X

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Greek Rational Medicine examines the important relationship between philosophy and medicine in ancient Greece and beyond and reveals its significance for contemporary western practice and theory.The ancient Greek medical thinkers were profoundly influenced by Ionian natural philosophy. This philosophy caused them to adopt a radically new attitude towards disease and healing. James Longrigg shows how their rational attitudes ultimately resulted in levels of sophistication largely unsurpassed until the Renaissance. He examines the important relationship between philosophy and medicine in ancient Greece and beyond, and reveals its significance for contemporary western practice and theory.


Greek Medicine

Greek Medicine

Author: James Longrigg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1136782184

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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen

Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen

Author: Jacques Jouanna

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-07-25

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9004208593

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This volume makes available in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on Greek and Roman medicine, ranging from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity.


The Invention of Medicine

The Invention of Medicine

Author: Robin Lane Fox

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 0465093450

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A preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine. Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth century BCE, a Greek doctor put forward his clinical observations of individual men, women, and children in a collection of case histories known as the Epidemics. Among his working principles was the famous maxim "Do no harm." In The Invention of Medicine, acclaimed historian Robin Lane Fox puts these remarkable works in a wider context and upends our understanding of medical history by establishing that they were written much earlier than previously thought. Lane Fox endorses the ancient Greeks' view that their texts' author, not named, was none other than the father of medicine, the great Hippocrates himself. Lane Fox's argument changes our sense of the development of scientific and rational thinking in Western culture, and he explores the consequences for Greek artists, dramatists and the first writers of history. Hippocrates emerges as a key figure in the crucial change from an archaic to a classical world. Elegantly written and remarkably learned, The Invention of Medicine is a groundbreaking reassessment of many aspects of Greek culture and city life.


Greek Medicine, Being Extracts Illustrative of Medical Writers From Hippocrates to Galen

Greek Medicine, Being Extracts Illustrative of Medical Writers From Hippocrates to Galen

Author: Arthur John Ed and Tr Brock

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9781014046680

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine

Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine

Author: Manfred Horstmanshoff

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 9047414314

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For the first time, medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world are studied side by side and compared. Early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen, Aelius Aristides, Vindicianus, the Talmud. The focus is the degree of "rationality" or "irrationality" in the various ways of medical thought and treatment. Fifteen specialists contributed thoughtful and well-documented chapters on important issues.


In the Grip of Disease

In the Grip of Disease

Author: G. E. R. Lloyd

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2003-03-06

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780191589287

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This original and lively book explores Greek ideas about health and disease and their influence on Greek thought. Fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, mind-body relations and gender differences, authority and the expert and who can challenge them, reality and appearances, good government, happiness, and good and evil themselves are deeply implicated. Using the evidence not just from Greek medical theory and practice but also from epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion, G. E. R. Lloyd offers the first comprehensive account of the influence of Greek thought about health and disease on the Greek imagination.


Plato's Rivalry with Medicine

Plato's Rivalry with Medicine

Author: Susan B. Levin

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0199919801

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While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B. Levin argues that from the Gorgias through the Laws, his handling of medicine unfolds in several key phases. Further, she shows that Plato views medicine as an important rival for authority on phusis (nature) and eudaimonia (flourishing). Levin's arguments rest on careful attention both to Plato and to the Hippocratic Corpus. Levin shows that an evident but unexpressed tension involving medicine's status emerges in the Gorgias and is explored in Plato's critiques of medicine in the Symposium and Republic. In the Laws, however, this rivalry and tension dissolve. Levin addresses the question of why Plato's rivalry with medicine is put to rest while those with rhetoric and poetry continue. On her account, developments in his views of human nature, with their resulting impact on his political thought, drive Plato's striking adjustments involving medicine in the Laws. Levin's investigation of Plato is timely: for the first time in the history of bioethics, the value of ancient philosophy is receiving notable attention. Most discussions focus on Aristotle's concept of phron sis (practical wisdom); here, Levin argues that Plato has much to offer bioethics as it works to address pressing concerns about the doctor-patient tie, medical professionalism, and medicine's relationship to society.


Neurological Concepts in Ancient Greek Medicine

Neurological Concepts in Ancient Greek Medicine

Author: Thomas M. Walshe

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0190218568

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Neurologic concepts in the Homeric epics -- Hippocrates and the Corpus Hippocraticum -- A neurology text before there was neurology -- On the sacred disease -- Surgical texts and diagnosis guides -- Wounds of the head -- Hippocratic medicine and neurologic conditions -- Ancient Greek ideas of cognition -- The separation of the nerves from other fibers -- The Hellenistic pursuit of neuroanatomy -- The Hippocratic oath and a modern digression


Greek and Roman Medicine

Greek and Roman Medicine

Author: Helen King

Publisher: Bristol Classical Press

Published: 2001-10-25

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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This introduction to ancient medical systems asks how the experience of illness and the role of medicine were understood in the Greek and Roman worlds. The text focuses on the place of medicine within changing types of society.