Greek rational medicine : philosophy and medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians / James Longrigg.

Greek Rational Medicine examines the important relationship between philosophy and medicine in ancient Greece and beyond and reveals its significance for contemporary western practice and theory.

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Main Author: Longrigg, James, 1934-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Pre-rational and irrational medicine in Greece and neighbouring cultures
  • 2. Ionian natural philosophy and the origins of rational medicine
  • 3. Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century I : Alcmaeon and the pre-Socratic philosophers
  • 4. Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century II : pre-Socratic philosophy and the Hippocratic Corpus
  • 5. Post-Hippocratic medicine I : medicine and the academy
  • 6. Post-Hippocratic medicine II : medicine from Lyceum to museum
  • 7. Early Alexandrian medical science.