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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Religious and magic attitudes towards disease and healing / H.F.J. Horstmanshoff, Philip J. van der Eijk and P.H. Schrijvers -- Illness and cures in the Greek propitiatory inscriptions and dedications of Lydia and Phrygia / Angelos Chaniotis -- Anatomia sacra Religiös motivierte Eingriffe in menschliche oder tierische Körper / Burkhard Gladigow -- The healing event in Graeco-Roman folk-medicine / Richard Gordon -- Tatian's ‘rejection’ of medicine in the second century / Darrel W. Amundsen -- Athumia and philanthrôpia Social reactions to plagues in late antiquity and early Byzantine society / Karl-Heinz Leven -- Medicine as a science and its relation to philosophy / H.F.J. Horstmanshoff, Philip J. van der Eijk and P.H. Schrijvers -- Le pepaideumenos et la médecine / Alberto Jori -- La référence médicale non-hippocratique dans les dialogues de Platon / Gilles Susong -- Medicine and the Lyceum / James Longrigg -- Aristotle on ‘distinguished physicians’ and on the medical significance of dreams / Philip J. Van Der Eijk -- L'épistémologie d'Érasistrate et la technologie hellénistique / M. Vegetti -- Alexander of Aphrodisias on medicine as a stochastic art / Katerina Ierodiakonou -- Dialectic and science: Galen, Herophilus and Aristotle on phenomena / Teun Tieleman -- Linguistic and literary aspects of medical texts / H.F.J. Horstmanshoff, Philip J. van der Eijk and P.H. Schrijvers -- Science as text, science as history: Galen on metaphor / Heinrich Von Staden -- The embarrassment of imperfection: Galen's assessment of Hippocrates' linguistic merits / Ineke Sluiter -- Structure and style in the Hippocratic treatise Prorrheticon 2 / Elsa García Novo -- Notes on the syntax of Celsus / Harm Pinkster -- The role of medical themes in literature / H.F.J. Horstmanshoff, Philip J. van der Eijk and P.H. Schrijvers -- La médecine technique dans la comédie attique / I. Rodríguez Alfageme -- General index / H.F.J. Horstmanshoff, Philip J. van der Eijk and P.H. Schrijvers -- Index locorum / H.F.J. Horstmanshoff, Philip J. van der Eijk and P.H. Schrijvers.