Ancient Greek Medicine in Questions and Answers

Diagnostics, Didactics, Dialectics
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43765-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 54, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 551 g

Reihe: Studies in Ancient Medicine

This volume provides a set of in-depth case studies about the role of questions and answers (Q&A) in ancient Greek medical writing from its Hippocratic beginnings up to, and including, Late Antiquity. The use of Q&A formulas is widely attested in ancient Greek medical texts, casting an intriguing light on its relevance for the medical art at large, and for ancient medical practice, education, and research in specific (diagnostics, didactics, dialectics). The book aims to break new grounds by exploring, for the first time, the wide complexity of this phenomenon while introducing a coherent approach. In so doing, it not only covers highly specialized medical treatises but also non-canonical authors and texts, including anonymous papyrus fragments and collections of problems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meeusen, Michiel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Ancient Greek Medicine in Questions and Answers: A Short Introduction

Michiel Meeusen

1 Questioning the Obvious: The Use of Questions and Answers in Assessing Consciousness in the Hippocratic Corpus

Andrés Pelavski

2 Peripatetic and Hippocratic Seeds in Pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata 4: Raising Questions about Aristotle’s Rejection of the Pangenesis Theory of Generation

Robert Mayhew

3 Author(s) and Reader(s) in the Supplementary Problems (Supplementa Problematorum)

Katerina Oikonomopoulou

4 Ps.-Alexander of Aphrodisias on Unsayable Properties in Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems

Michiel Meeusen

5 Erotetic Logic, Uncertainty and Therapy: Galen and Alexander on Logic and Medicine

Luca Gili

6 La réponse du médecin: les rapports d’ inspection médicale écrits en grec sur papyrus (Ier-IVe siècles)

Antonio Ricciardetto

7 Definitions and Technical Terminology in the Erôtapokriseis on Papyrus

Isabella Bonati

8 Digitizing Medical Papyri in Question-and-Answer Format

Nicola Reggiani

9 Questions on the Unseen: Alexander of Tralles’ Patient Interaction

Laura Mareri

Index Rerum Nominumque

Index Locorum

Über Autor(innen)

Michiel Meeusen (Ph.D. KU Leuven, 2013) specialises in ancient science and medicine and the literature and culture of the High Roman Empire.



Contributors are:

Isabella Bonati, Luca Gili, Laura Mareri, Robert Mayhew, Michiel Meeusen, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Andrés Pelavski, Nicola Reggiani, Antonio Ricciardetto.