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.

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,...

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Superior document:Studies in ancient medicine, v. 31
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Year of Publication:2005
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 31.
Physical Description:1 online resource (540 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Philip J. van der Eijk
  • Cause and crisis in historians and medical writers of the classical period / Jacques Jouanna
  • Hippocratic explanations / Jane Barton
  • On Ancient Medicine and its intellectual context / Francis Dunn
  • On Ancient Medicine on the nature of human beings / Mark J. Schiefsky
  • Art, science and conjecture, from Hippocrates to Plato and Aristotle / Véronique Boudon-Millot
  • Modelli espositivi relativi alla prognosi nel Corpus Hippocraticum (Prorrhetico 2, Malattie 1–3, Affezioni, Affezioni Interne, Prognosi di Cos) / Daniela Fausti
  • The social and intellectual context of Regimen II / John Wilkins
  • The Hippocratic impact on healing cults: the archaeological evidence in Attica / Maria Elena Gorrini
  • The cities of the Hippocratic doctors / Hui-hua Chang
  • Error, loss, and change in the generation of therapies / Julie Laskaris
  • The Hippocratic Treatise Peri Opsios (De videndi acie, On the Organ of Sight) / Elizabeth Craik
  • Coan promotions and the authorship of the Presbeutikos / Eric D. Nelson
  • Air, pneuma and breathing from Homer to Hippocrates / Anthoine Thivel
  • Microcosm and macrocosm: the dual direction of analogy in Hippocratic thought and the meteorological tradition / Frédéric Le Blay
  • About philosophy and humoural medicine / Paul Demont
  • The way to wisdom in Plato’s Phaedrus and in the Hippocratic Corpus / Elsa García Novo
  • Medici contemporanei a Ippocrate: problemi di identificazione dei medici di nome Erodico / Daniela Manetti
  • Hippokratisches bei Praxagoras von Kos? / Diethard Nickel
  • Theophrastus’ biological opuscula and the Hippocratic Corpus: a critical dialogue? / Armelle Debru
  • Form and function in Prorrhetic 2 / Tim Stover
  • Special features in Internal Affections. Comparison to other nosological treatises / Pilar Pérez Cañizares
  • On enantiôsis in the Corpus Hippocraticum: The eu-/dus opposition / Marcos Martínez
  • Greek Medical Papyri from the Fayum village of Tebtunis: Patient involvement in a local health-care system? / Ann Ellis Hanson
  • Celsus and the Hippocratic Corpus: The originality of a ‘plagiarist’ / Muriel Pardon
  • Areteo di Cappadocia lettore di Ippocrate / Amneris Roselli
  • Hippocrates in the context of Galen: Galen’s commentary on the classification of fevers in Epidemics VI / In-Sok Yeo
  • Galen’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ De humoribus / Ivan Garofalo
  • Autour de la connaissance du traité Hippocratique Des hémorroïdes à l’époque byzantine / Alessia Guardasole
  • François Tissard and his 1508 edition of the Hippocratic Oath / Thomas Rütten
  • General Index / Philip J. van der Eijk
  • Index of Passages Cited / Philip J. van der Eijk
  • Studies in Ancient Medicine / Philip J. van der Eijk.