Ancient Medicine in Its Socio-Cultural Context, Volume 2

Papers Read at the Congress Held at Leiden University, 13-15 April 1992
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-90-5183-582-3
Verlag: Editions Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 317 Seiten, Format (B × H): 16 mm x 23 mm

Reihe: Clio Medica

Volume 2: The international congress Ancient Medicine in its Socio-Cultural Context held at Leiden University in April 1992 aimed at promoting an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to problems of health and disease in the Greco-Roman world. This approach envisaged the study of the place and the development of medical theory and practice against the background of ancient society, culture and mentality. At the same time attention was paid to the ways in which topics and images borrowed from medicine are used in non-medical contexts. In this way the congress intended to stimulate the comparison of recent results of a strictly medico-historical approach with contributions from classical philology, social history, archaeology, history of religion and philosophy as applied to the Ancient World.
This book contains most of the papers read at the Congress, many of which have been revised and further elaborated in the light of the discussions they provoked.
The following topics are addressed:

- Individual and collective reactions to diseases
- The place of medicine within the framework of ancient science and its relation to philosophy
- Interactions between religion, magic and healing
- The varied roles and status of doctors and other medical practitioners in their social environment
- Women, children and sexuality
- The role of medical themes in literature
- Linguistic and literary aspects of medical texts

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Horstmanshoff, H.F.J.

Eijk, Philip J. van der

Schrijvers, P.H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 3: RELIGIOUS AND MAGIC ATTITUDES TOWARDS DISEASE AND HEALING. Angelos CHANIOTIS: Illness and cures in the Greek propitiatory inscriptions and dedications of Lydia and Phrygia. Burkhard GLADIGOW: Anatomia sacra. Religiös motivierte Eingriffe in menschliche oder tierische Körper. Richard GORDON: The healing event in Graeco-Roman folk-medicine. Darrel W. AMUNDSEN: Tatian's 'rejection' of medicine in the second century. Karl-Heinz LEVEN: Athumia and philanthrôpia.Social reactions to plagues in late antiquity and early Byzantine society. PART 4: MEDICINE AS A SCIENCE AND ITS RELATION TO PHILOSOPHY. Alberto JORI: Le pepaideumenos et la médecine. Gilles SUSONG: La référence médicale non-hippocratique dans les dialogues de Platon. James LONGRIGG: Medicine and the Lyceum. Philip J. van der EIJK: Aristotle on 'distinguished physicians' and on the medical significance of dreams. M. VEGETTI: L'épistémologie d'Érasistrate et la technologie hellénistique. Katerina IERODIAKONOU: Alexander of Aphrodisias on medicine as a stochastic art. Teun TIELEMAN: Dialectic and science: Galen, Herophilus and Aristotle on phenomena. PART 5: LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY ASPECTS OF MEDICAL TEXTS. Heinrich von STADEN: Science as text, science as history: Galen on metaphor. Ineke SLUITER: The embarrassment of imperfection: Galen's assessment of Hippocrates' linguistic merits. Elsa GARCÍA NOVO: Structure and style in the Hippocratic treatise Prorrheticon 2. Harm PINKSTER: Notes on the syntax of Celsus. PART 6: THE ROLE OF MEDICAL THEMES IN LITERATURE. I. Rodríguez ALFAGEME: La médecine technique dans la comédie attique. General index. Index locorum.