Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen: Selected Papers

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Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen; Copyright; Contents; Editorial Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Translations and Abbreviations; Part One: Classical Greek Medicine in Its Historical, Literary and Cultural Context; Chapter One: Egyptian Medicine and Greek Medicine; Chapter Two: Politics and Medicine. The Problem of Change in Regimen in Acute Diseases and Thucydides (Book 6); Chapter Three: Rhetoric and Medicine in the Hippocratic Corpus. A Contribution to the History of Rhetoric in the Fifth Century; Chapter Four: Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy.;This volume makes available in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on Greek and Roman medicine, ranging from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity. Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen Copyright Contents Editorial Preface Acknowledgements Note on Translations and Abbreviations Part One: Classical Greek Medicine in Its Historical, Literary and Cultural Context Chapter One: Egyptian Medicine and Greek Medicine Chapter Two: Politics and Medicine. The Problem of Change in Regimen in Acute Diseases and Thucydides (Book 6) Chapter Three: Rhetoric and Medicine in the Hippocratic Corpus. A Contribution to the History of Rhetoric in the Fifth Century Chapter Four: Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy. Chapter Five: Disease as Aggression in the Hippocratic Corpus and Greek Tragedy: Wild and Devouring DiseaseChapter Six: Hippocrates and the Sacred Part Two: Aspects of Hippocratic Medicine and Their Relationship to Greek Philosophical Thought Chapter Seven: Air, Miasma and Contagion in the Time of Hippocrates and the Survival of Miasmas in Post-Hippocratic Medicine (Rufus of Ephesus, Galen and Palladius) Chapter Eight: Dietetics in Hippocratic Medicine: Definition, Main Problems, Discussion Chapter Nine: Water, Health and Disease in the Hippocratic Treatise Airs, Waters, Places. Chapter Ten: Wine and Medicine in Ancient GreeceChapter Eleven: The Theory of Sensation, Thought and the Soul in the Hippocratic Treatise Regimen: Its Connections with Empedocles and Plato's Timaeus Chapter Twelve: At the Roots of Melancholy: Is Greek Medicine Melancholic? Part Three: The Reception of Hippocratic Medicine in Galen and in Late Antiquity Chapter Thirteen: Galen's Reading of Hippocratic Ethics Chapter Fourteen: Galen's Concept of Nature Chapter Fifteen: Galen's Reading of the Hippocratic Treatise The Nature of Man: The Foundations of Hippocratism in Galen. Chapter Sixteen: The Legacy of the Hippocratic Treatise The Nature of Man: The Theory of the Four HumoursGeneral Index Index of Passages Cited.