Greek Medical Manuscripts - Diels’ Catalogue

Greek Medical Manuscripts - Diels’ Catalogue
Author: Alain Touwaide
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2020-12-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110599961

The medical literature of ancient Greece has been much studied during the 20th century, particularly from the 1970s on. In spite of this intense activity, the search for manuscripts still relies on the catalogue compiled in the early 1900s by a group of philologists led by the German historian of Greek philosophy and medicine Hermann Diels. However useful the so-called Diels has been and still is, it is now in need of a thorough revision. The present five-tome set is a first step in that direction. Tome 1 offers a reproduction of Diels’ catalogue with an index of the manuscripts. The following three tomes provide a reconstruction of the texts contained in the manuscripts listed in Diels on the basis of Diels’ catalogue. Proceeding as Diels did, these three tomes distinguish the manuscripts containing texts by (or attributed to) Hippocrates (tome 2), Galen (tome 3), and the other authors considered by Diels (tome 4). Tome 5 will list all the texts listed in Diels for each manuscript in the catalogue. The present work will be a reference for all scholars interested in Greek medical literature and manuscripts, in addition to historians of medicine, medical book, medical tradition, and medical culture.

The Anatomist Anatomis'd

The Anatomist Anatomis'd
Author: Andrew Cunningham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 763
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351894943

The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as 'the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks at the investigation of anatomy in the 'long' eighteenth century in disciplinary terms. This means looking in a novel way not only at the practical aspects of anatomizing but also at questions of how one became an anatomist, where and how the discipline was practised, what the point was of its practice, what counted as sub-disciplines of anatomy, and the nature of arguments over anatomical facts and priority of discovery. In particular pathology, generation and birth, and comparative anatomy are shown to have been linked together as sub-disciplines of anatomy. At first sight anatomy seems the most long-lived and stable of medical disciplines, from Galen and Vesalius to the present. But Cunningham argues that anatomy was, like so many other areas of knowledge, changed irrevocably around the end of the eighteenth century, with the creation of new disciplines, new forms of knowledge and new ways of investigation. The 'long' eighteenth century, therefore, was not only the highpoint of anatomy but also the endpoint of old anatomy.

The Great Medical Bibliographers

The Great Medical Bibliographers
Author: John F. Fulton
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1512816108

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Essays on Bibliography

Essays on Bibliography
Author: Vito Joseph Brenni
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1975
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Medical Books, Libraries and Collectors

Medical Books, Libraries and Collectors
Author: John Leonard Thornton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 506
Release: 1966
Genre: Medical libraries
ISBN:

Introductory history of the production, distribution and storage of medical literature from the earliest times. Plates are facsimilies from medical literature of the sixteenth-nineteenth centuries.