Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 404 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780511482670
Content:
This work brings together Philip van der Eijk's previously published essays on the close connections that existed between medicine and philosophy throughout antiquity. Medical authors such as the Hippocratic writers, Diocles, Galen, Soranus and Caelius Aurelianus elaborated on philosophical methods such as causal explanation, definition and division and applied key concepts such as the notion of nature to their understanding of the human body. Similarly, philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle were highly valued for their contributions to medicine. This interaction was particularly striking in the study of the human soul in its relation to the body, as illustrated by approaches to specific topics such as intellect, sleep and dreams, and diet and drugs. With a detailed introduction surveying the subject as a whole and an essay on Aristotle's treatment of sleep, this wide-ranging and accessible collection is essential reading for the student of ancient philosophy and science
Note:
1. The 'theology' of the Hippocratic treatise On the sacred disease -- 2. Diocles and the Hippocratic writings on the method of dietetics and the limits of causal explanation -- 3. To help, or to do no harm : principles and practices of therapeutics in the Hippocratic corpus and in the work of Diocles of Carystus -- 4. The heart, the brain, the blood and the pneuma : Hippocrates, Diocles and Aristotle on the location of cognitive processes -- 5. Aristotle on melancholy -- 6. Theoretical and empirical elements in Aristotle's treatment of sleep, dreams and divination in sleep -- 7. The matter of mind : Aristotle on the biology of 'psychic' processes and the bodily aspects of thinking.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521818001
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521142977
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Eijk, Philip J. van der, 1962 - Medicine and philosophy in classical antiquity Cambridge, UK [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005 ISBN 9780521818001
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521142977
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521818001
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
,
Medicine
,
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Antike
;
Medizin
;
Philosophie
;
Bibliografie
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511482670
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Author information:
Eijk, Philip J. van der 1962-
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