Ancient Histories of Medicine

Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiography in Classical Antiquity
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-04-10555-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1111 g

Reihe: Studies in Ancient Medicine

This collection of essays focuses on the ways in which Greek and Latin authors viewed and wrote about the history of medicine in the ancient world. Special attention is given to medical doxography, i.e. the description of the characteristic doctrines of the great medical authorities of the past.

The volume examines the various attitudes to the history of medicine adopted by a wide range of ancient writers (e.g. Aristotle, Galen, Celsus, Herophilus, Soranus, Oribasius, Caelius Aurelianus). It discusses the historical sense of ancient medicine, the variety of versions of the medical past that were created and the wide range of purposes and strategies which medico-historical writing served. It also deals with the question of the sources, the role of historiographical traditions and the variety of literary genres of ancient medico-historical writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eijk, P J van der

Weitere Mitwirkende

Runia, Douwe (David)

Debru, Armelle

Staden, Heinrich von

Althoff, Jochen

Manetti, Daniela

Vegetti, Mario

Roselli, Amneris

Lucia, Roberto de

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Über Autor(innen)

Philip J. van der Eijk, Ph.D. (1991), Leiden, is Professor of Greek at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He has published widely on ancient philosophy, medicine, science, comparative literature and patristics. He is the author of Aristoteles. De insomniis. De divinatione per somnum (Berlin), 1994), and co-editor of Ancient Medicine in its Socio-Cultural Context (Amsterdam-Atlanta, 1995).