Hippocrates in context : : papers read at the XIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 27-31 August 2002 / / edited by Philip J. van der Eijk.

• Superior document: Studies in ancient medicine, v. 31
• Author: International Hippocrates Colloquium
• TeilnehmendeR: Eijk, Ph. J. van der; International Hippocrates Colloquium
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 31.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (540 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Cause and crisis in historians and medical writers of the classical period /; Hippocratic explanations /; On Ancient Medicine and its intellectual context /; On Ancient Medicine on the nature of human beings /; Art, science and conjecture, from Hippocrates to Plato and Aristotle /; Modelli espositivi relativi alla prognosi nel Corpus Hippocraticum (Prorrhetico 2, Malattie 1–3, Affezioni, Affezioni Interne, Prognosi di Cos) /; The social and intellectual context of Regimen II /; The Hippocratic impact on healing cults: the archaeological evidence in Attica /; The cities of the Hippocratic doctors /; Error, loss, and change in the generation of therapies /; The Hippocratic Treatise Peri Opsios (De videndi acie, On the Organ of Sight) /; Coan promotions and the authorship of the Presbeutikos /; Air, pneuma and breathing from Homer to Hippocrates /; Microcosm and macrocosm: the dual direction of analogy in Hippocratic thought and the meteorological tradition /; About philosophy and humoural medicine /; The way to wisdom in Plato’s Phaedrus and in the Hippocratic Corpus /; Medici contemporanei a Ippocrate: problemi di identificazione dei medici di nome Erodico /; Hippokratisches bei Praxagoras von Kos? /; Theophrastus’ biological opuscula and the Hippocratic Corpus: a critical dialogue? /; Form and function in Prorrhetic 2 /; Special features in Internal Affections. Comparison to other nosological treatises /; On enantiôsis in the Corpus Hippocraticum: The eu-/dus opposition /; Greek Medical Papyri from the Fayum village of Tebtunis: Patient involvement in a local health-care system? /; Celsus and the Hippocratic Corpus: The originality of a ‘plagiarist’ /; Areteo di Cappadocia lettore di Ippocrate /; Hippocrates in the context of Galen: Galen’s commentary on the classification of fevers in Epidemics VI /; Galen’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ De humoribus /; Autour de la connaissance du traité Hippocratique Des hémorroïdes à l’époque byzantine /; François Tissard and his 1508 edition of the Hippocratic Oath /; General Index /; Index of Passages Cited /; Studies in Ancient Medicine /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9789004377271; 9004377271; 1280868236; 9786610868230; 1429453354; 9047407687; 1433704447
• ISSN: 0925-1421
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Philip J. van der Eijk.

This collection of papers studies the Hippocratic writings in their relationship to the intellectual, social, cultural and literary context in which they were written. ‘Context’ includes not only the Greek world, but also the medical thought and practice of other civilisations in the Mediterranean, such as Babylonian and Egyptian medicine. A further point of interest are the relations between the Hippocratic writings and ‘non-Hippocratic’ medical authors of the fifth and fourth century BCE, such as Diocles of Carystus, Praxagoras of Cos, as well as Plato, Aristotle and Theophrastus. The collection further includes studies of some of the less well-known works in the Hippocratic Corpus, such as Internal Affections , On the Eye , and Prorrheticon . And finally, a number of papers are devoted to the impact and reception of Hippocratic thought in later antiquity and the early modern period.