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Greek medicine : from the heroic to the Hellenistic age : a source book

Title: Greek medicine : from the heroic to the Hellenistic age : a source book / James Longrigg.
Author: Longrigg, James, 1934-
Publication: New York : Routledge, 1998.

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Description

vii, 244 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

Medicine, Ancient
Medicine > Greece > History > Philosophy
Medicine > Greece > History > Sources
Medicine, Greek and Roman

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Pre-rational and irrational medicine in ancient Greece and neighbouring cultures -- II. The rise and development of rational medicine in ancient Greece -- III. Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century I: Alcmaeon and the Presocratic philosophers -- IV. The Hippocratic Corpus and the Hippocratic question -- V. Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century II: Presocratic philosophy and the Hippocratic Corpus -- VI. Philosophy and medicine until the fourth century: 'Sicilian' medicine and its influence -- VII. Early Alexandrian medical science -- VIII. Hippocratic deontology -- IX. Disease and human physiology -- X. Epidemic disease -- XI. Prognosis and diagnosis -- XII. Dietetics and regimen -- XIII. Pharmacology -- XIV. Anatomy -- XV. Surgery -- XVI. Gynaecology.

ISBN

0415920876 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98015593

OCLC

38853878
ocm38853878

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries