Hippocrates in Context : Papers Read at the XIth International Hippocrates Colloquium (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 27-31 August 2002).

Hippocrates in Context : Papers Read at the XIth International Hippocrates Colloquium (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 27-31 August 2002).

This collection of papers studies the Hippocratic writings in their relationship to the intellectual, social, cultural and literary context in which they were written, as well as the impact and reception of Hippocratic thought in later antiquity and the early modern period.

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Main Author: Van der Eijk, Philip J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : BRILL, 2006.
Subjects:
Hippocrates.
Hippocrates
Medicine, Greek and Roman > History.
Medicine, Greek and Roman
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE; Cause and crisis in historians and medical writers of the classical period (Jacques Jouanna); Hippocratic explanations (Jane Barton); On Ancient Medicine and its intellectual context (Francis Dunn); On Ancient Medicine on the nature of human beings (Mark J. Schiefsky); Art, science and conjecture, from Hippocrates to Plato and Aristotle (Véronique Boudon-Millot).
  • Modelli espositivi relativi alla prognosi nel Corpus Hippocraticum (Prorrhetico 2, Malattie 1-3, Affezioni, Affezioni Interne, Prognosi di Cos) (Daniela Fausti)2. THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE; The social and intellectual context of Regimen II (John Wilkins); The Hippocratic impact on healing cults: the archaeological evidence in Attica (Maria Elena Gorrini); The cities of the Hippocratic doctors (Hui-hua Chang); Error, loss, and change in the generation of therapies (Julie Laskaris); The Hippocratic Treatise Peri Opsios, (De vid.

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