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)

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Philip J. van der Eijk -- Historical awareness, historiography and doxography in Greek and Roman medicine / Philip J. van der Eijk -- What is doxography? / David T. Runia -- Aristoteles als Medizindoxograph / Jochen Althoff -- ‘Aristotle’ and the role of doxography in the Anonymus Londiniensis (PBrLibr Inv. 137) / Daniela Manetti -- Rupture and continuity: Hellenistic reflections on the history of medicine / Heinrich von Staden -- The placita ascribed to doctors in Aëtius’ doxography on physics / David T. Runia -- Celsus as historian? / Heinrich von Staden -- The Anonymus Parisinus and the doctrines of “the Ancients” / Philip J van der Eijk -- Tradition and truth. Forms of philosophical-scientific historiography in Galen’s De placitis / Mario Vegetti -- Notes on the doxai of doctors in Galen’s commentaries on Hippocrates / Amneris Roselli -- Historiographical strategies in Galen’s physiology / Mario Vegetti -- Antiquarianism and criticism: Forms and functions of medical doxography in Methodism (Soran us and Caelius Aurelianus) / Philip J. van der Eijk -- Doctrine et tactique doxographique dans l’Anonyme de Bruxelles: Une comparaison avec l’Anonyme de Londres / Armelle Debru -- Doxographical hints in Oribasius’ Collectiones medicae / Roberto de Lucia -- Notes on Contributors / Philip J. van der Eijk -- List of abbreviations / Philip J. van der Eijk -- General Index / Philip J. van der Eijk -- Index Locorum / Philip J. van der Eijk -- Studies in Ancient Medicine / Philip J. van der Eijk.