Philip J. van der Eijk is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Classics and History of Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is regarded as one of the world's leading experts in the study of ancient medicine, the recipient of a number of prestigious awards, and is a member of several learned academies. With Cambridge University Press, he has published Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity (2005), and he is editor of the series Cambridge Galen Translations.

'The work of the leading scholar in the field of ancient medicine today, Professor van der Eijk, is always of the highest quality. Here he shows how the influence of Aristotle extended into many areas of ancient thought particularly in medicine. His insights challenge many traditional interpretations and introduce many unfamiliar thinkers to a wider audience.' Vivian Nutton, Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine, University College London

• Part I. Aristotle's Engagement with Health, Disease and Medicine: 1. Sources of information about Aristotle's ideas on health, disease and medicine; 2. Did Aristotle write the first systematic discussion of health and disease in medical history?; 3. Did Aristotle write the first history of medicine in medical history?; 4. Did Aristotle produce the first anatomical atlas in the history of medicine?; 5. Did Aristotle devote more specialised writings to medical themes in particular?; 6. Aristotle's attitude to the medical ideas and practices of his time; 7. Aristotle's views on good medical practice; 8. Aristotle's belief in the importance of (his own) philosophy for medicine; 9. Aristotle's innovations in the study and management of health, disease and medicine (1); 10. Aristotle's innovations in the study and management of health, disease and medicine (2); Part II: The Peripatos and Hellenistic Medicine: 11. Medicine in the Natural Problems; 12. On Breath; 13. Theophrastus on health and disease in plants; 14. Theophrastus on the medicinal capacities of plants; 15. Theophrastus on psycho-physiology; 16. Theophrastus on elementary physiology and medicine, and on poisonous animals; 17. Aristotelianism and early Hellenistic medicine; 18. Strato (of Lampsacus, and/or the Erasistratean) on medical and physiological themes; 19. Pneumatism, Stoicism and Aristotelianism; 20. Aristotelianism and Empiricist medicine; Part III. Aristotelianism and Medicine in the Early Roman Empire: 21. The role of Anonymus Londiniensis in the history of Aristotelian engagement with health, disease and medicine in the early Imperial period; 22. Galen's Aristotelianism; 23. Alexander of Aphrodisias on health, disease and medicine; 24. The treatise On Fevers attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias; 25. The medical 'problems' and 'puzzles' attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias and later collections; Part IV. Aristotelianism and Medicine in Late Antiquity: 26. Nemesius of Emesa, Aristotelianism and ancient medicine; 27. Philoponus, medicine and Aristotelian exegesis; 28. Stephanus the philosopher-doctor.