Bookby Jacques Jouanna ; edited with a preface by Philip van der Eijk ; translated by Neil Allies.
Summary: This volume makes available for the first time in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on medicine in the Graeco-Roman world. The papers cover more than thirty years of Jouanna's scholarship and range from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity. Part One studies the ways in which Greek medicine is related to its historical and cultural background (politics, rhetoric, drama, religion). Part Two studies a number of salient features of Hippocratic medicine, such as dietetics, theories of health and disease and concepts of psychosomatic interaction, in relation to Greek philosophical thought. Part Three studies the reception of Hippocratic medicine, especially medical ethics and the theory of the four humours, in Galen and in late antiquity.
Contents:
Part One. Classical Greek medicine in its Historical, Literary and Cultural Context
Egyptian Medicine and Greek Medicine
Politics and Medicine : The Problem of Change in Regimen in Acute Diseases and Thucydides (Book 6)
Rhetoric and Medicine in the Hippocratic Corpus : A Contribution to the History of Rhetoric in the Fifth Century
Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy
Disease as Aggression in the Hippocratic Corpus and Greek Tragedy : Wild and Devouring Disease
Hippocrates and the Sacred
Part Two. Aspects of Hippocratic Medicine and Their Relationship to Greek Philosophical Thought
Air, Miasma and Contagion in the Time of Hippocrates and the Survival of Miasmas in Post-Hippocratic Medicine (Rufus of Ephesus, Galen and Palladius)
Dietetics in Hippocratic Medicine : Definition, Main Problems, Discussion
Water, Health and Disease in the Hippocratic Treatise Airs, Waters, Places
Wine and Medicine in Ancient Greece
The Theory of Sensation, Thought and the Soul in the Hippocratic Treatise
Regimen : Its Connections with Empedocles and Plato's Timaeus
At the Roots of Melancholy : Is Greek Medicine Melancholic?
Part Three. The Reception of Hippocratic Medicine in Galen and in Late Antiquity
Galen's Reading of Hippocratic Ethics
Galen's Concept of Nature
Galen's Reading of the Hippocratic Treatise The Nature of Man : The Foundations of Hippocratism in Galen
The Legacy of the Hippocratic Treatise The Nature of Man : The Theory of the Four Humours.
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