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Hippocratic Lives and Legends
Inbunden, 1992
2454 kr
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Hippocratic Lives and Legends examines the ideal of the ancient physician and processes of biographical fiction that shaped the legend of Hippocrates. Focusing on three stories in particular — how Hippocrates cured the plague, Hippocrates' detection of King Perdiccas' lovesickness, and Hippocrates' …
Galen on the Brain
Anatomical Knowledge and Physiological Speculation in the Second Century AD
Av Julius Rocca
Inbunden, 2003
2714 kr
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This book is a study of the ways in which Galen sought to establish the brain as the regent part (hegemonikon) of the body, utilising a rigorous anatomical epistemology and an often sophisticated (but perforce limited) set of physiological arguments Part One surveys the medical and philosophical …
Heroic Measures
Hippocratic Medicine in the Making of Euripidean Tragedy
Inbunden, 2004
2982 kr
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This book demonstrates the importance of Greek medical thought in the work of Euripides. The first part of the book argues for the significance of the healing figure in Euripidean drama, while the second part analyzes the role of traditional and rationalist healing strategies in the construction of …
Hippocratic Recipes
Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greece
Inbunden, 2008
3237 kr
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Hippocratic Recipes is the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological and a sociocultural point of view. Drawing on studies in the …
Hippocrates and Medical Education
Selected Papers Presented at the XIIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, Universiteit Leiden, 24-26 August 2005
Inbunden, 2010
3425 kr
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The collection of writings known as the Corpus Hippocraticum played a decisive role in medical education for more than twenty-four centuries. This is the first full-length volume on medical education in Graeco-Roman antiquity since Kudlien’s seminal article of 1970. Most of the articles in this …
Hippocratic Treatise On Glands
Edited and Translated with Introduction and Commentary
Inbunden, 2009
2257 kr
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This is a new edition, with translation, introduction and commentary, of the Hippocratic treatise On Glands. Through a close analysis of both content and expression, the text is interpreted and situated in the wider context of ancient medical writing.
John the Physician's Therapeutics
A Medical Handbook in Vernacular Greek
Inbunden, 2009
3273 kr
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The Therapeutics of John the Physician is a medical handbook from the thirteenth century, holding important new evidence on medicine as craft. Of particular interest is a vernacular version of the text, which also contains a commentary. Here, an unknown reviser vividly describes cases and medical …
Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen
Selected Papers
Inbunden, 2012
3465 kr
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This volume makes available for the first time in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on medicine in the Graeco-Roman world. The papers cover more than thirty years of Jouanna’s scholarship and range from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity. Part One …
Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt
Inbunden, 2012
2633 kr
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Current questions on whether Hellenistic Egypt should be understood in terms of colonialism and imperialism, multicultural separatism, or integration and syncretism have never been closely studied in the context of healing. Yet illness affects and is affected by nutrition, disease and reproduction …
Hippocrates, On the Art of Medicine
Av Joel Mann
Inbunden, 2012
2620 kr
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On the art of medicine, or de Arte, embodies as perhaps no other ancient text the full flower of the sophistic movement of the fifth century BCE. It is a rhetorical epideixis in which forensic oratory, philosophy, and medicine are woven into an ambitious display of sophistic polymathy. Unlike much …
'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin Medical Texts
Studies in Cultural Change and Exchange in Ancient Medicine
Inbunden, 2014
3358 kr
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Latin medical texts transmit medical theories and practices that originated mainly in Greece. This interaction took place through juxtaposition, assimilation and transformation of ideas. 'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin Medical Texts studies the ways in which this cultural interaction influenced the …
Tools of Asclepius
Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times
Inbunden, 2014
3371 kr
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With The Tools of Asclepius Lawrence Bliquez offers the first comprehensive treatment in English of the instruments and paraphernalia employed by Greco-Roman surgeons since John St. Milne’s Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times (1907). Introductory sections cover topics ranging from …
Ancient Concepts of the Hippocratic
Papers Presented at the XIIIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, Austin, Texas, August 2008
Av Lesley Dean-Jones, Ralph M. Rosen
Inbunden, 2015
3318 kr
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In Ancient Concepts of the Hippocratic, Lesley Dean-Jones and Ralph Rosen have gathered 19 international authorities in ancient medicine to identify commonalities among the treatises of the Hippocratic Corpus which led scholars of antiquity to group them under the single name of Hippocrates. Most …
Ancient Greek Medicine in Questions and Answers
Diagnostics, Didactics, Dialectics
Inbunden, 2020
2029 kr
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This volume provides a set of in-depth case studies about the role of questions and answers (Q&A) in ancient Greek medical writing from its Hippocratic beginnings up to, and including, Late Antiquity. The use of Q&A formulas is widely attested in ancient Greek medical texts, casting an intriguing …
Cutting Words - Polemical Dimensions of Galen's Anatomical Experiments
Inbunden, 2020
2271 kr
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In Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments, Luis Alejandro Salas offers a new account of Galen’s medical experiments in the context of the high intellectual culture of second-century Rome. The book explores how Galen’s written experiments operate alongside their live …
Holism in Ancient Medicine and Its Reception
Inbunden, 2020
2365 kr
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This volume aims at exploring the ancient roots of ‘holistic’ approaches in the specific field of medicine and the life sciences, without, however, overlooking the larger theoretical implications of these discussions. Therefore, the project plans to broaden the perspective to include larger …
Hippocratic Commentaries in the Greek, Latin, Syriac and Arabic Traditions
Selected Papers from the XVth Colloque Hippocratique, Manchester
Inbunden, 2021
2257 kr
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This collection of articles presents cutting-edge scholarship in Hippocratic studies in English from an international range of experts. It pays special attention to the commentary tradition, notably in Syriac and Arabic, and its relevance to the constitution and interpretation of works in the …
Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings
Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering
Inbunden, 2023
1962 kr
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Why is it so difficult to talk about pain? As we do today, the Greeks and Romans struggled to communicate their pain: this required a rich and subtle vocabulary which had to be developed over time. Pain Narratives traces the development of this language in literary, philosophical, and medical texts …
Aristotle reads Hippocrates
Av Hynek Barto
Inbunden, 2024
1744 kr
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Despite Aristotle's family background and his undeniable impact on ancient Greek medicine, the influence of medicine on Aristotle's philosophy is controversial and far from universally acknowledged. The aim of this volume is to re-examine the influence of medical knowledge and literature on …
Caelius Aurelianus and His Work
Medical Practices, Intellectual History, Textual Transmission
Inbunden, 2026
2498 kr
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The aim of this book is to take stock of the state of the art in scholarship on Caelius Aurelianus as well as offer new perspectives on this important figure; while doing that, to insert him and his work within current historiographies of medicine and ancient world studies. Thirty years after the …
