MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

6 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity accessible to a wider group of scholars and students. An almost exclusive focus ...

Introduction 7 and public hygiene and healthcare, and how they coped – physically as well as spiritually – with pain, illness an ...

8 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity and religion has proved a remarkably fruitful area of research;^9 and similar o ...

Introduction 9 using the word – or if they did not, in what other terms they conceived their own activities.^13 Secondly, the ac ...

10 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity The title of this volume still refers to ‘medicine’ and ‘philosophy’ as distin ...

Introduction 11 of their own subject, medical authors such as Galen – who wrote a trea- tise advocating the view that the best d ...

12 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity (archai) or ‘elements’ (stoicheia) of organic substances through anatomical st ...

Introduction 13 were exclusively on the receiving end: theories about causation or inference from signs constitute good examples ...

14 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity as well as mathematicians and other ‘scientists’, and there is good reason to ...

Introduction 15 Yet although all the above may seem uncontroversial, the relationship between Aristotelianism and medicine has l ...

16 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity Fortunately, there have recently been some encouraging signs of interest, such ...

Introduction 17 of the question of sterility, a good example of the common ground that connected ‘doctors’ and ‘philosophers’, i ...

18 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity the phenomenon Aristotle describes has a somewhat peculiar, ambivalent status: ...

Introduction 19 philosophically inspired medicine that we find in the Hippocratic writings on the one hand and what is sometimes ...

20 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity add, like all other phenomena), has its own ‘nature’, its peculiar determined, ...

Introduction 21 and a readiness to take documents such as the Dervenyi papyrus, the in- troduction of Parmenides’ poem and thePu ...

22 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity under the heading of ‘Hippocratic Corpus’. As has been recognised ever since a ...

Introduction 23 ‘Hippocratic writings’ have in common is that they are written in the Ionic dialect and that they were, at some ...

24 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity title of ‘younger Hippocrates’ or deemed ‘second in age and fame to Hip- pocra ...

Introduction 25 (cf. fr. 56 ), his references to obscure causes (fr. 177 ), his interest in cogni- tion, sense-perception and lo ...