Ancient histories of medicine : : essays in medical doxography and historiography in classical antiquity / / edited by Philip J. Van Der Eijk.

• Superior document: Studies in ancient medicine, v. 20
• TeilnehmendeR: Van Der Eijk, Philip J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English; French; German
• Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 537 pages)
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Historical awareness, historiography and doxography in Greek and Roman medicine /; What is doxography? /; Aristoteles als Medizindoxograph /; ‘Aristotle’ and the role of doxography in the Anonymus Londiniensis (PBrLibr Inv. 137) /; Rupture and continuity: Hellenistic reflections on the history of medicine /; The placita ascribed to doctors in Aëtius’ doxography on physics /; Celsus as historian? /; The Anonymus Parisinus and the doctrines of “the Ancients” /; Tradition and truth. Forms of philosophical-scientific historiography in Galen’s De placitis /; Notes on the doxai of doctors in Galen’s commentaries on Hippocrates /; Historiographical strategies in Galen’s physiology /; Antiquarianism and criticism: Forms and functions of medical doxography in Methodism (Soran us and Caelius Aurelianus) /; Doctrine et tactique doxographique dans l’Anonyme de Bruxelles: Une comparaison avec l’Anonyme de Londres /; Doxographical hints in Oribasius’ Collectiones medicae /; Notes on Contributors /; List of abbreviations /; General Index /; Index Locorum /; Studies in Ancient Medicine /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004377476
• ISSN: 0925-1421
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Philip J. Van Der Eijk.

This collection of essays focuses on the ways in which Greek and Latin authors viewed and wrote about the history of medicine in the ancient world. Special attention is given to medical doxography, id est the description of the characteristic doctrines of the great medical authorities of the past. The volume examines the various attitudes to the history of medicine adopted by a wide range of ancient writers (e.g. Aristotle, Galen, Celsus, Herophilus, Soranus, Oribasius, Caelius Aurelianus). It discusses the historical sense of ancient medicine, the variety of versions of the medical past that were created and the wide range of purposes and strategies which medico-historical writing served. It also deals with the question of the sources, the role of historiographical traditions and the variety of literary genres of ancient medico-historical writing.