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Author Hippocrates

Title On ancient medicine / Hippocrates ; translated with introduction and commentary by Mark J. Schiefsky
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (415 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; v. 28
Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 28. 0925-1421
Contents Chapter 1 SOURCES AND SCOPE -- chapter 2 PATTERNS OF DISEASE -- chapter 3 BEFORE HIPPOCRATES -- chapter 4 Hippocrates, the Hippocratic Corpus and the defining of medicine -- chapter 5 HIPPOCRATIC THEORIES -- chapter 6 HIPPOCRATIC PRACTICES -- chapter 7 Religion and medicine in fifth- and fourth-century Greece -- chapter 8 FROM PLATO TO PRAXAGORAS -- chapter 9 ALEXANDRIA, ANATOMY AND EXPERIMENTATION -- chapter 10 HELLENISTIC MEDICINE -- chapter 11 ROME AND THE TRANSPLANTATION OF GREEK MEDICINE -- chapter 12 THE CONSEQUENCES OF EMPIRE: PHARMACOLOGY, SURGERY AND THE ROMAN ARMY -- chapter 13 THE RISE OF METHODISM -- chapter 14 HUMORAL ALTERNATIVES -- chapter 15 THE LIFE AND CAREER OF GALEN -- chapter 16 GALENIC MEDICINE -- chapter 17 ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF (MAINLY) MEN -- chapter 18 MEDICINE AND THE RELIGIONS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE -- chapter 19 MEDICINE IN THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE -- chapter 20 CONCLUSION
Summary "The Hippocratic treatise On Ancient Medicine, a key text in the history of early Greek thought, mounts a highly coherent attack on the attempt to base medical practice on principles drawn from natural philosophy. This volume presents an up-to-date Greek text of On Ancient Medicine, a new English translation, and a detailed commentary that focuses on questions of medical and scientific method; the introduction sets out a new approach to the problem of the work's relationship to its intellectual context and addresses the contentious issues of its date, authorship, and reception. The book will be of interest to scholars of ancient medicine and ancient philosophy, as well as anyone concerned with the history of science and scientific method in antiquity."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-382 and indexes
Notes Greek text and English translation on facing pages; introduction and commentary in English
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Subject Hippocrates. De prisca medicina.
SUBJECT Hippocrates De prisca medicina
De prisca medicina (Hippocrates) fast
Subject Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Philosophy.
Medicine -- History.
Philosophy, Medical
History, Ancient
History of Medicine
history of medicine.
MEDICAL -- History.
Medicine -- Philosophy
Medicine
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Genre/Form History
Early works
Form Electronic book
Author Schiefsky, Mark John
ISBN 9781429426930
1429426934
9789004137585
9004137580
9780203490914
0203490916
9781433703768
1433703769
1280859431
9781280859434
9786610859436
6610859434
9047405013
9789047405016
Other Titles De prisca medicina. English & Greek
Hippocrates on ancient medicine