Hippocrates on Ancient Medicine: Translated with Introduction and Commentary

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-13758-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 418 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 903 g

Reihe: Studies in Ancient Medicine

The Hippocratic treatise On Ancient Medicine, a key text in the history of early Greek thought, mounts a highly coherent attack on the attempt to base medical practice on principles drawn from natural philosophy. This volume presents an up-to-date Greek text of On Ancient Medicine, a new English translation, and a detailed commentary that focuses on questions of medical and scientific method; the introduction sets out a new approach to the problem of the work's relationship to its intellectual context and addresses the contentious issues of its date, authorship, and reception. The book will be of interest to scholars of ancient medicine and ancient philosophy, as well as anyone concerned with the history of science and scientific method in antiquity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schiefsky, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Über Autor(innen)

Mark J. Schiefsky, Ph.D. (1999) in Classical Philosophy (Harvard), is Assistant Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. He has published a number of articles and reviews in the fields of ancient philosophy and science, particularly medicine and mechanics.