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Subject(s)

• Galen [Browse]
• Physicians—Rome [Browse]
• Physicians—Greece [Browse]
• Philosophers—Rome [Browse]
• Philosophers—Greece [Browse]
• Medicine, Greek and Roman [Browse]
• Philosophy, Ancient [Browse]

Editor

• Singer, P. N. (Peter N.), 1962- [Browse]
• Rosen, Ralph Mark [Browse]

Publisher

• Oxford University Press [Browse]

Printer

• Sheridan Books Inc [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Handbooks and manuals [Browse]
• Essays [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• handbooks [Browse]

Series

• Oxford handbooks [More in this series]
• Oxford handbook

Summary note

"This book offers a comprehensive overview of the work, intellectual contribution, medical activity, and historical legacy of Galen (Galēnos, 129-c. 210 CE), arguably the most significant medical figure of the Graeco-Roman world, as well as an important contributor to the philosophical discourse, especially in the areas of logic, epistemology, causation, scientific method, and ethics. Its 29 chapters, written by prominent scholars in their fields, present accessible, but at the same time thorough and detailed, analyses of all major areas of Galen's thought, clinical practice, and literary output, considered in their original historical context, as well as of the most important pathways and phases of the transmission of his texts and his intellectual legacy, from late antiquity to early modern times and from western Europe to Tibet and China" -- Publisher's website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Chronology
• Part I. Medical and intellectual contexts : 1. Introduction / P.N. Singer
• 2. Galen : Life and Works / Véronique Boudon-Millot
• 3. Philosophy, Science, and Psychology : Galen's Theory of "Soul" in Its Intellectual Context / P.N. Singer
• 4. Galen, Rhetoric, and the Second Sophistic / Caroline Petit
• 5. Galen's Hippocratism / Sean Coughlin
• 6. Galen and Hellenistic Medicine / David Leith
• 7. Galen on Women : Gynecology and Female Patients / Rebecca Flemming
• 8. Galen's Pharmacology in Context / Julie Laskaris
• 9. Galenus Chirurgus : Galen as Surgeon / Lawrence J. Bliquez
• Part II. Topics and works : 10. Galen on Logic and Scientific Method / Matyáš Havrda
• 11. Anatomy and Physiology / Luis Alejandro Salas
• 12. Physical and Causal Concepts / R.J. Hankinson
• 13. Pharmacology : Texts, Theories, and Practices / P.N. Singer, Matteo Martelli, and Lucia Raggetti
• 14. Pathology / Julien Devinant
• 15. Galen's Clinical Practice / Susan Mattern
• 16. Galen on Food, Diet, and the Healthy Life / John Wilkins
• 17. Galen on the Pulse : Theory and Method / Orly Lewis
• 18. Galen on the Signs of Disease / Piero Tassinari
• 19. Ethical Works / Ralph M. Rosen
• Part III. Galen's legacy : 20. Galen in the Late Imperial and Early Byzantine Periods / Christine Salazar
• 21. Galenism in Later Byzantium / Antoine Pietrobelli
• 22. Translation into Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew / Peter E. Pormann
• 23. Galen beyond Baghdad / Aileen R. Das
• 24. Galen's Return to the West / Stefania Fortuna
• 25. Galen in Renaissance and Early Modern Debates / Hiro Hirai
• 26. Galenic Anatomy in the Long Renaissance / Vivian Nutton
• 27. Galen's Legacy in Jewish and Muslim Medical Traditions in Europe / Carmen Caballero-Navas
• 28. Galenic Medicine in South Asia / Fabrizio Speziale
• 29. Galen in Premodern Tibet and China : Impressions and Footprints / Dror Weil and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
• Appendix : List of Galen's Works : Titles, Editions, Translations, and Online Resources
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9780190913687 (hardcover)
• 0190913681 (hardcover)

LCCN

2024006250

OCLC

1410815861

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