Ancient medicine in its socio-cultural context. : Papers read at the Congress held at Leiden University, 13-15 april 1992 / / Volume 2 : / edited by PH. J. van der Eijk, H. J. F. Horstmanshoff, P. H. Schrijvers.

• Superior document: Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
• TeilnehmendeR: Eijk, Ph. J. van der; Horstmanshoff, H. F. J.,; Schrijvers, P. H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1995]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Religious and magic attitudes towards disease and healing /; Illness and cures in the Greek propitiatory inscriptions and dedications of Lydia and Phrygia /; Anatomia sacra Religiös motivierte Eingriffe in menschliche oder tierische Körper /; The healing event in Graeco-Roman folk-medicine /; Tatian's ‘rejection’ of medicine in the second century /; Athumia and philanthrôpia Social reactions to plagues in late antiquity and early Byzantine society /; Medicine as a science and its relation to philosophy /; Le pepaideumenos et la médecine /; La référence médicale non-hippocratique dans les dialogues de Platon /; Medicine and the Lyceum /; Aristotle on ‘distinguished physicians’ and on the medical significance of dreams /; L'épistémologie d'Érasistrate et la technologie hellénistique /; Alexander of Aphrodisias on medicine as a stochastic art /; Dialectic and science: Galen, Herophilus and Aristotle on phenomena /; Linguistic and literary aspects of medical texts /; Science as text, science as history: Galen on metaphor /; The embarrassment of imperfection: Galen's assessment of Hippocrates' linguistic merits /; Structure and style in the Hippocratic treatise Prorrheticon 2 /; Notes on the syntax of Celsus /; The role of medical themes in literature /; La médecine technique dans la comédie attique /; General index /; Index locorum /
• ISBN: 9004418385
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by PH. J. van der Eijk, H. J. F. Horstmanshoff, P. H. Schrijvers.

This collection of papers – some of which written by the world’s leading specialists in the area of ancient medicine – aims at promoting an integrated approach to medical theory and practice in classical antiquity. Questions of health and disease are considered in their relation to the social, intellectual, moral and religious dimensions of the ancient world. The papers focus on the socio-cultural setting of the experience of pain and illness, the different reactions they provoked and the importance that was attached to this experience in literature, religion and philosophy. The first volume offers articles (from an archaeological, historical and philological point of view) dealing with social, institutional and geographical aspects of medical practice. It also has a special section on medical views on women, children and sexuality, and on female medical activity. The second volume focuses on the ways in which religious and magical beliefs influenced the experience of, and the attitude towards, illness and medical practice. It also deals with the relations of medicine with philosophy, and the other sciences and with the variety of linguistic and textual forms in which medical knowledge was expressed and communicated. Contributors to the second volume are Darrel W. Amundsen, Angelos Chaniotis, Philip J. van der Eijk, Elsa García Novo, Burkhard Gladigow, Richard Gordon, Katerina Ierodiakonou, Alberto Jori, Karl-Heinz Leven, James Longrigg, Harm Pinkster, I. Rodríguez Alfageme, Ineke Sluiter, Heinrich von Staden, Gilles Susong, Teun Tieleman, and M. Vegetti.