1. Pre-rational and irrational medicine in Greece and neighbouring cultures -- 2. Ionian natural philosophy and the origins of rational medicine -- 3. Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century I : Alcmaeon and the pre-Socratic philosophers -- 4. Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century II : pre-Socratic philosophy and the Hippocratic Corpus -- 5. Post-Hippocratic medicine I : medicine and the academy -- 6. Post-Hippocratic medicine II : medicine from Lyceum to museum -- 7. Early Alexandrian medical science
Summary
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
Analysis
Medicine History
Greece
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-277) and index
