Greek Rational Medicine

Author : James Longrigg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134973668

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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
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136782183

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Greek Medicine by James Longrigg Pdf

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : James Longrigg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 1472540719

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Greek Medicine by James Longrigg Pdf

"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 : James Longrigg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134973675

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Greek Rational Medicine by James Longrigg Pdf

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 : Arthur John Ed and Tr Brock
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014734673

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Greek Medicine, Being Extracts Illustrative of Medical Writers From Hippocrates to Galen by Arthur John Ed and Tr Brock Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Jacques Jouanna
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004208599

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Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen by Jacques Jouanna Pdf

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,Marten Stol
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047414315

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Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine by Manfred Horstmanshoff,Marten Stol Pdf

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 : Robin Lane Fox
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241277065

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The Invention of Medicine by Robin Lane Fox Pdf

Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021 Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, Greeks even wrote of medicine as a newly discovered craft they had invented. Robin Lane Fox's remarkable book puts their invention of medicine in a wider context, from the epic poems of Homer to the first doctors known to have been active in the Greek world. He examines what we do and do not know about Hippocrates and his Oath and the many writings that survive under his name. He then focuses on seven core texts which give the case histories of named individuals, showing that books 1 and 3 belong far earlier than previously recognised. Their re-dating has important consequences for the medical awareness of the great Greek dramatists and the historians Herodotus and Thucydides. Robin Lane Fox pieces together the doctor's thinking from his terse observations and relates it in a new way to the history of Greek prose and ideas. This original and compelling book opens windows onto many other aspects of the classical world, from women's medicine to street-life, empire, art, sport, sex and even botany. It fills a dark decade in a new way and carries readers along an extraordinary journey form Homer's epics to the grateful heirs of the Greek case histories, first in the Islamic world and then in early modern Europe.

Author : Jacques Jouanna
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004232549

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Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen by Jacques Jouanna Pdf

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 : George Kazantzidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110660470

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Medicine and Paradoxography in the Ancient World by George Kazantzidis Pdf

The present volume offers a systematic discussion of the complex relationship between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world. For a long time, the relationship between the two has been assumed to be virtually non-existent. Paradoxography is concerned with disclosing a world full of marvels and wondrous occurrences without providing an answer as to how these phenomena can be explained. Its main aim is to astonish and leave its readers bewildered and confused. By contrast, medicine is committed to the rational explanation of human phusis, which makes it, in a number of significant ways, incompatible with thauma. This volume moves beyond the binary opposition between ‘rational’ and ‘non-rational’ modes of thinking, by focusing on instances in which the paradox is construed with direct reference to established medical sources and beliefs or, inversely, on cases in which medical discourse allows space for wonder and admiration. Its aim is to show that thauma, rather than present a barrier, functions as a concept which effectively allows for the dialogue between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world.

Author : Helen King
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015043711756

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Greek and Roman Medicine by Helen King Pdf

This introduction to ancient medical systems asks how the experience of illness and the role of medicine were understood in the Greek and Roman worlds. The text focuses on the place of medicine within changing types of society.

Author : G. E. R. Lloyd
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0191589284

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In the Grip of Disease by G. E. R. Lloyd Pdf

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 : William Henry Samuel Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Medical
ISBN : PSU:000016235168

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Philosophy and Medicine in Ancient Greece by William Henry Samuel Jones Pdf

Author : Thomas M Walshe, III
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190218584

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Neurological Concepts in Ancient Greek Medicine by Thomas M Walshe, III Pdf

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 : Arthur John Brock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015000315856

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Greek Medicine, Being Extracts Illustrative of Medical Writers from Hippocrates to Galen by Arthur John Brock Pdf