Greek Rational Medicine
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Author | : James Longrigg |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2013-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134973667 |
The ancient Greek medical thinkers were profoundly influenced by Ionian natural philosophy. This philosophy caused them to adopt a radically new attitude towards disease and healing. James Longrigg shows how their rational attitudes ultimately resulted in levels of sophistication largely unsurpassed until the Renaissance. He examines the important relationship between philosophy and medicine in ancient Greece and beyond, and reveals its significance for contemporary western practice and theory.
Author | : James Longrigg |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136782184 |
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : James Longrigg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : 9781472540713 |
"Greek medicine is an important aspect of Greek culture. The Greeks were the first to put forward rational systems of medicine which resulted in a radically new conception of disease, accounting for causes and symptoms in purely natural terms. Greek rational medicine reached a climax in the third century BC at Alexandria, where medical anatomical researchers attained levels of accuracy and sophistication largely unsurpassed in Western culture until the 16th century. In the past this subject has been difficult to study because of the inaccessibility of source material, which is highly diverse, widely scattered, frequently unedited, and at times fragmentary. The aim of this book is to help to resolve this problem by providing a collection and translation of some of this material and assembling it in an accessible form."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Author | : Jacques Jouanna |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2012-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004208593 |
This volume makes available in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on Greek and Roman medicine, ranging from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity.
Author | : Manfred Horstmanshoff |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047414314 |
A study of methods in Ancient Near Eastern and Greek and Roman medicine, based on representative text corpora. Central is the question of what is "rational", or not, in the various systems.
Author | : Arthur John Ed and Tr Brock |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781014046680 |
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Author | : Jessica L. Weaver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2004 |
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Author | : Thomas M Walshe, III |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2016-01-05 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0190218584 |
Neurological history claims its earliest origins in the 17th century with Thomas Willis's publication of Anatomy of the Brain, coming fully into fruition as a field in the late 1850s as medical technology and advancements allowed for in depth study of the brain. However, many of the foundations in neurology can find the seed of their beginning to a time much earlier than that, to ancient Greece in fact. Neurological Concepts in Ancient Greek Medicine is a collection of essays exploring neurological ideas between the Archaic and Hellenistic eras. These essays also provide historic, intellectual, and cultural context to ancient Greek medical practice and emphasizing the interest in the brain of the early physicians. This book describes source material that is over 2,500 years old and reveals the observational skills of ancient physicians. It provides complete translations of two historic Hippocratic texts: On the Sacred Diseases and On the Wounds of the Head. The book also discusses the Hippocratic Oath and the modern applications of its meaning. Dr. Walshe connects this ancient history, usually buried in medical histories, and shows the ancient Greek notions that are the precursors of our understanding of the brain and nervous system.
Author | : G. E. R. Lloyd |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2003-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780191589287 |
This original and lively book explores Greek ideas about health and disease and their influence on Greek thought. Fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, mind-body relations and gender differences, authority and the expert and who can challenge them, reality and appearances, good government, happiness, and good and evil themselves are deeply implicated. Using the evidence not just from Greek medical theory and practice but also from epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion, G. E. R. Lloyd offers the first comprehensive account of the influence of Greek thought about health and disease on the Greek imagination.
Author | : Robin Lane Fox |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465093450 |
A preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine. Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth century BCE, a Greek doctor put forward his clinical observations of individual men, women, and children in a collection of case histories known as the Epidemics. Among his working principles was the famous maxim "Do no harm." In The Invention of Medicine, acclaimed historian Robin Lane Fox puts these remarkable works in a wider context and upends our understanding of medical history by establishing that they were written much earlier than previously thought. Lane Fox endorses the ancient Greeks' view that their texts' author, not named, was none other than the father of medicine, the great Hippocrates himself. Lane Fox's argument changes our sense of the development of scientific and rational thinking in Western culture, and he explores the consequences for Greek artists, dramatists and the first writers of history. Hippocrates emerges as a key figure in the crucial change from an archaic to a classical world. Elegantly written and remarkably learned, The Invention of Medicine is a groundbreaking reassessment of many aspects of Greek culture and city life.