MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

26 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity especially because of his anatomical research and discoveries, his views on ph ...

Introduction 27 do not make a categorical distinction between ‘mind’ and ‘body’: all mental affections are presented as being of ...

28 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity questions; and moving on to the Imperial period, a particular mention must be ...

Introduction 29 versatility. In chapter 10 , I shall consider Galen’s theoretical considerations about pharmacology, and in part ...

30 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity their ideas. I touch here on a further aspect in which the study of ancient me ...

Introduction 31 had to present their ideas, and the audio-visual means (writing facilities, diagrams, opportunities for live dem ...

32 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity the situation in which a text has, or is supposed to have, functioned, for exa ...

Introduction 33 and assert themselves, to establish the position of their profession and to gain authority and power.^37 To be s ...

34 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity comprehensive systematic account), intended audience (e.g. specialists or laym ...

Introduction 35 is disagreement about the authenticity of some of them). Yet any general account of Aristotle’s philosophy is bo ...

36 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity Ancient Medicine^48 and the author ofOn Diseases 1 , who seems to refer to a s ...

Introduction 37 this is not sufficient and of no use to those lacking the experience to put it into practice.^51 For what we kno ...

38 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity that a particular observation is ‘worth writing down’ (axion graph ̄es);^56 an ...

Introduction 39 practical application. And it seems entirely reasonable that medicine (rather than, say, mathematics or astronom ...

40 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity the text, for example by means of the use of the first person singular in expr ...

Introduction 41 from Pergamum. And, as I have shown elsewhere, the works of Caelius Aurelianus present a further example of medi ...

42 Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity history of their own subject, which were the product of a sometimes long, poss ...

part i Hippocratic Corpus and Diocles of Carystus ...

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chapter 1 The ‘theology’ of the Hippocratic treatise On the Sacred Disease 1 introduction The author of the Hippocratic treatise ...