Experiment in Early Greek Philosophy and Medicine

Greek rational medicine: philosophy and medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians

This is a very important work which casts new light on traditional medical systems and beliefs, and makes vital contributions to the understanding of gender in the construction of medicine in rural Egypt. Though Morsy's research relates to the modern period, it is also relevant to the understanding of popular medicine in medieval times and in other parts of the Middle East. As there is so much ...

A structural pattern in Greek dietetics and the early history of Greek medicine.

INTRODUCTION Early Greek medicine-the medicine actually practised by Greek doctors of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. and reflected in various texts of the Hippocratic Corpushas two noticeable characteristics. In its nosology it conceives of disease as a process, which runs a predictable course, reaching a crisis which "determines" or "decides" the recovery or death ofthe patient.1 In its t...

Greek medicine

Ancient greek philosophy and modern psychiatry.

Scholastic medicine and philosophy

chosen to claim it for their own, and the meaning of many of its phrases has long been the subject of doubt and discussion. This beautifully produced edition will go far towards informing the German reader of the difficulties of interpreting the Oath, and will alert him to some of the dangers of an eager identification of ancient and modern. He will also gain from some of the commentators' subt...