Greek Medicine
Author: James Longrigg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-08-21
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1136782184
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Author: James Longrigg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-08-21
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1136782184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: James Longrigg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-08-21
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1136782192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: James Longrigg
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781472540713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Greek medicine is an important aspect of Greek culture. The Greeks were the first to put forward rational systems of medicine which resulted in a radically new conception of disease, accounting for causes and symptoms in purely natural terms. Greek rational medicine reached a climax in the third century BC at Alexandria, where medical anatomical researchers attained levels of accuracy and sophistication largely unsurpassed in Western culture until the 16th century. In the past this subject has been difficult to study because of the inaccessibility of source material, which is highly diverse, widely scattered, frequently unedited, and at times fragmentary. The aim of this book is to help to resolve this problem by providing a collection and translation of some of this material and assembling it in an accessible form."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Author: Jacques Jouanna
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-07-25
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9004208593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Shigehisa Kuriyama
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2023-10-17
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 0942299930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illuminating account of how early medicine in Greece and China perceived the human body Winner of the William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But when we look into the past, our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds. How can perceptions of something as basic and intimate as the body differ so? In this book, Shigehisa Kuriyama explores this fundamental question, elucidating the fascinating contrasts between the human body described in classical Greek medicine and the body as envisaged by physicians in ancient China. Revealing how perceptions of the body and conceptions of personhood are intimately linked, his comparative inquiry invites us, indeed compels us, to reassess our own habits of feeling and perceiving.
Author: James Longrigg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03-07
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1134973675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Michiel Meeusen
Publisher: Studies in Ancient Medicine
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9789004437654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Thomas M. Walshe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0190218568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNeurologic 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
Author: Charles Singer
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-07-21
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis little book is an attempt to compress into a few pages an account of the general evolution of Greek biological and medical knowledge. The Greek people had many roots, racial, cultural, and spiritual, and from them all, they inherited various powers and qualities and derived various ideas and traditions. It is thus not surprising that our first systematic treatment of animals is in a practical medical work, the On Regimen (περὶ διαίτης) of the Hippocratic Collection. This very peculiar treatise dates from the later part of the fifth century. It is strongly under the influence of Heracleitus (c. 540-475) and contains many points of view which reappear in later philosophy. All animals, according to it, are formed of fire and water, nothing is born and nothing dies, but there is a perpetual and eternal revolution of things, so that change itself is the only reality. Man's nature is but a parallel to that of the universal nature, and the arts of man are but an imitation or reflex of the natural arts or, again, of the bodily functions. The soul, a mixture of water and fire, consumes itself in infancy and old age, and increases during adult life. Here, too, we meet with that singular doctrine, not without bearing on the course of later biological thought, that in the foetus all parts are formed simultaneously. On the proportion of fire and water in the body all depends, sex, temper, temperament, intellect. Such speculative ideas separate this book from the sober method of the more typical Hippocratic medical works with which indeed it has little in common.
Author: Charles Reginald Schiller Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13:
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