Greek Rational Medicine: Philosophy and Medicine from Alcmaeon to the AlexandriansThe ancient Greek medical thinkers were profoundly influenced by Ionian natural philosophy. This philosophy caused them to adopt a radically new attitude towards disease and healing. James Longrigg shows how their rational attitudes ultimately resulted in levels of sophistication largely unsurpassed until the Renaissance. He examines the important relationship between philosophy and medicine in ancient Greece and beyond, and reveals its significance for contemporary western practice and theory. |
Contents
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2 Ionian natural philosophy and the origins of rational medicine | 26 |
Alcmaeon and the preSocratic philosophers | 47 |
PreSocratic philosophy and the Hippocratic Corpus | 82 |
Medicine and the Academy | 104 |
Medicine from Lyceum to Museum | 149 |
7 Early Alexandrian medical science | 177 |
The role of the opposites in preAristotelian physics | 220 |
Notes | 227 |
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General index | 287 |
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