| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 300 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Galen, the unsuspected moralist -- General protreptic and suggested approaches to life -- Practical ethics in technical accounts -- Moral medicine -- Avoiding distress -- Exhortation to the study of medicine -- Affections and errors of the soul -- Recognising the best physician -- Prognosis |
| Summary |
"Offering the first authoritative analysis of Galen's psychological and ethical works alongside a large number of technical tracts, both medical and philosophical, this book provides a new framework through which we can comprehend Galen's role as a practical ethicist - an aspect of his intellectual profile that has been little understood until now"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 28, 2023) |
| Subject |
Galen -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Galen fast |
| Subject |
Medical ethics -- Greece
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Medicine, Greek and Roman.
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Medical ethics
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Medicine, Greek and Roman
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023028759 |
| ISBN |
9781009247795 |
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1009247794 |
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