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.
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, intel...
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| Superior document: | Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine |
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| 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.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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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.