The Cosmological Doctors of Classical Greece : First Principles in Early Greek Medicine

The first comprehensive study of the origins, motivations, and methods of Greek doctors who investigated the universe as a whole..

Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Citations and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I.1 The "Cosmological Doctors" -- I.2 Medicine and Philosophy? -- I.3 The Scope of This Study -- Chapter 1 Three Secondhand Reports -- 1.1 Anonymus Londiniensis -- 1.2 Plato's Symposium -- 1.3 On Ancient Medicine -- Chapter 2 On the Nature of the Human Being -- 2.1 The Hot, the Cold, the Wet, and the Dry -- 2.2 Remote and Proximate Causes -- 2.3 Commonality and Difference -- Chapter 3 On Breaths -- 3.1 A Rhetorical Game? -- 3.2 The Work of Hippocrates? -- 3.3 The Common Cause of All Diseases -- 3.4 Accessory and Contributing Causes -- 3.5 A Single Class for All Diseases -- Chapter 4 The Cosmological Impulse -- 4.1 The Problem of Individual Variation -- 4.2 The Shortcomings of Diagnostic Handbooks -- 4.3 A Search for Commonality -- 4.4 The Stability of Causal Explanations -- 4.5 From the Common to the Particular -- 4.6 The Cosmological Turn -- 4.7 The Limits of Medical Thinking -- Chapter 5 On Flesh -- 5.1 The Hot, the Cold, and the Wet (but Not the Dry) -- 5.2 The Body and the Cosmos -- 5.3 The Fatty and the Glutinous -- 5.4 Anthropogony As a Guide to Treatment -- Chapter 6 On Regimen -- 6.1 The Self-Sufficiency of Fire and Water -- 6.2 The Cyclical Universe -- 6.3 Mapping the Cosmos -- 6.4 A Resemblance of the Whole -- 6.5 Treating and Preventing Disease -- 6.6 The Quest for Precision -- 6.7 The Nature of Intelligence -- 6.8 The Mind of Gods -- Conclusion -- References -- Index of Passages Discussed -- General Index..

Medienart:	E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023 ©2023
Erschienen:	Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ; 2023 ©2023

Weitere Ausgaben:	Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe: The cosmological doctors of classical Greece

Sprache:	Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:	Camden, David H. [VerfasserIn]

Links:	ebookcentral.proquest.com [lizenzpflichtig]

ISBN:	978-1-009-20308-1

Themen:	Electronic books Geschichte Griechenland Kosmologie Medizin

RVK:	RVK Klassifikation XB 2800

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PPN (Katalog-ID):	1848545819