MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

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MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY This work makes available for the first time in one dedicated volume Philip van d ...

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MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease PHILIP J. VAN DER EI ...

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Contents Acknowledgements pageix Note on translations xiii Note on abbreviations xiv Introduction 1 i hippocratic corpus and dio ...

viii Contents 8 Divine movement and human nature inEudemian Ethics 8. 2 238 9 On Sterility(‘Hist. an. 10 ’), a medical work by A ...

Acknowledgements Since the original publication of these papers I have taken the opportunity to make some, mostly minor, revisio ...

x Acknowledgements Chapter 4 was first published in Dutch under the title ‘Hart en hersenen, bloed en pneuma. Hippocrates, Diocl ...

Acknowledgements xi I should further like to express my gratitude to the institutions, colleagues and friends who have provided ...

xii Acknowledgements Mark Schiefsky, Piet Schrijvers, Chris Sicking, Wesley Smith, Richard Sorabji, Heinrich von Staden, Michael ...

Note on translations All translations of Greek and Latin texts are my own, except in those cases where I have used the following ...

Note on abbreviations Abbreviations of authors’ names and works follow those used in theOxford Classical Dictionary, ed. S. Horn ...

Introduction Few areas in classical scholarship have seen such rapid growth as the study of ancient medicine. Over the last thre ...

2 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity be viewed as one aspect of what was sometimes referred to asle miracle grec or ...

Introduction 3 little appeal among classicists. Of course, there were exceptions on either side, and the names of such eminent h ...

4 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity a kind of teleological progressivism that pays particular attention to those as ...

Introduction 5 Greek medicine and our contemporary biomedical paradigm has given way to a more historicising approach that prima ...