Aristotle reads Hippocrates

Hynek Bartoš, Charles University, is an associate professor at that university. He has published monographs, translations and numerous articles on ancient philosophy and medicine, including Philosophy and Dietetics in the Hippocratic On Regimen (Brill 2015).Vojtěch Linka, Charles University, is an assistant professor at that university. He wrote a PhD thesis on Approaches to Pain in Classical Philosophy and Medicine (2023) and continues his research in the philosophy of medicine.Contributors are: Hynek Bartoš, Vojtěch Linka, Lorenzo Perilli, Stavros Kouloumentas, Stasinos Stavrianeas, Sean Coughlin, Claire Bubb, Sophia Connell, Mariska Leunissen, Giouli Korobili, Tiberiu Popa, Karel Thein, Pierre-Marie Morel, Monte Ransome Johnson, Chiara Thumiger.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionHynek Bartoš and Vojtěch Linka1 On Aristotle’s Use of His Sources for Medical Ideas and Their FeaturesLorenzo Perilli2 Physicians and Philosophers on Well-Balanced MixturesHynek Bartoš3 On Ancient Medicine and Aristotle on the Structure and Function of Bodily PartsStavros Kouloumentas and Stasinos Stavrianeas4 Art and Nature in Aristotle’s Physics: Some Antecedents in Early Greek MedicineSean Coughlin5 Aristotle and the Medical Tradition on Sleep and FoodClaire Bubb6 The Hippocratic Background to Aristotle’s GynaecologySophia Connell7 Aristotle’s Indebtedness to Early Greek Medical Texts on Wind-PregnanciesMariska Leunissen8 The Power of the Example: When Aristotle Read the Hippocratic On the Nature of the Child…Giouli Korobili9 Environmental Causation in Aristotle and in Airs, Waters, PlacesTiberiu Popa10 On the Character of Citizens: Aristotle Politics 7.7 and Airs, Waters, PlacesKarel Thein11 The Enigmatic Presence of Medicine and Physiology in Aristotle’s Ethical WritingsPierre-Marie Morel12 The Medical Background and Inductive Basis of Aristotle’s Doctrine of the MeanMonte Ransome Johnson13 Medicine and the Emotions: The Problemata in Dialogue with the Hippocratic WritingsChiara ThumigerIndex