Aristotle Reads Hippocrates.

This volume examines the influence of medical knowledge on Aristotle's work, in particular, it explores the connections with the Hippocratic writings. By presenting a series of case studies, it offers new insights and encourages further explorations.

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Superior document:Studies in Ancient Medicine Series ; v.59
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.
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Year of Publication:2024
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Ancient Medicine Series
Physical Description:1 online resource (446 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • ‎Half-Title Page
  • ‎Series Title Page
  • ‎Title Page
  • ‎Copyright Page
  • ‎Contents
  • ‎Acknowledgements
  • ‎Notes on Contributors
  • ‎Introduction (Bartoš and Linka)
  • ‎Chapter 1. On Aristotle's Use of His Sources for Medical Ideas and Their Features (Perilli)
  • ‎Chapter 2. Physicians and Philosophers on Well-Balanced Mixtures (Bartoš)
  • ‎Chapter 3. On Ancient Medicine and Aristotle on the Structure and Function of Bodily Parts (Kouloumentas and Stavrianeas)
  • ‎Chapter 4. Art and Nature in Aristotle's Physics: Some Antecedents in Early Greek Medicine (Coughlin)
  • ‎Chapter 5. Aristotle and the Medical Tradition on Sleep and Food (Bubb)
  • ‎Chapter 6. The Hippocratic Background to Aristotle's Gynaecology (Connell)
  • ‎Chapter 7. Aristotle's Indebtedness to Early Greek Medical Texts on Wind-Pregnancies (Leunissen)
  • ‎Chapter 8. The Power of the Example: When Aristotle Read the Hippocratic On the Nature of the Child … (Korobili)
  • ‎Chapter 9. Environmental Causation in Aristotle and in Airs, Waters, Places (Popa)
  • ‎Chapter 10. On the Character of Citizens: Aristotle's Politics 7.7 and Airs, Waters, Places (Thein)
  • ‎Chapter 11. The Enigmatic Presence of Medicine and Physiology in Aristotle's Ethical Writings (Morel)
  • ‎Chapter 12. The Medical Background and Inductive Basis of Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean (Johnson)
  • ‎Chapter 13. Medicine and the Emotions: The Problemata in Dialogue with the Hippocratic Writings (Thumiger)
  • ‎Index locorum
  • ‎Index rerum
  • Back Cover.