Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease

Name: Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease
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ISBN: 9780521818001

ISBN-10: 0521818001

ISBN-13: 9780521818001

Edition: 2005

Authors: Philip J. Van der Eijk

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This work brings together Philip van der Eijk's previously-published essays on the close connections that existed between medicine and philosophy throughout antiquity. Medical authors such as the Hippocratic writers, Diocles, Galen, Soranus and Caelius Aurelianus elaborated on philosophical methods such as causal explanation, definition and division and applied key concepts such as the notion of nature to their understanding of the human body. Similarly, philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle were highly valued for their contributions to medicine. This interaction was particularly striking in the study of the human soul in its relation to the body, as illustrated by approaches to specific…

Book details

List price: $109.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/12/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 420
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.25" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Note on translations


Note on abbreviations


Introduction



Hippocratic Corpus and Diocles of Carystus



The 'theology' of the Hippocratic treatise On the Sacred Disease



Diocles and the Hippocratic writings on the method of dietetics and the limits of causal explanation



To help, or to do no harm: principles and practices of therapeutics in the Hippocratic Corpus and in the work of Diocles of Carystus



The heart, the brain, the blood and the pneuma: Hippocrates, Diocles and Aristotle on the location of cognitive processes



Aristotle and His School



Aristotle on melancholy



Theoretical and empirical elements in Aristotle's treatment of sleep, dreams and divination in sleep



The matter of mind: Aristotle on the biology of 'psychic' processes and the bodily aspects of thinking



Divine movement and human nature in Eudemian Ethics 8.2



On sterility ('Hist. an. 10'), a medical work by Aristotle?



Late Antiquity



Galen's use of the concept of 'qualified experience' in his dietetic and pharmacological works



The Methodism of Caelius Aurelianus: some epistemological issues


Bibliography


Index of passages cited


General index