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Ancient Medicine in Its Socio-Cultural Context, Volume 2
Papers Read at the Congress Held at Leiden University, 13-15 April 1992
Series: - Clio Medica Online, Volume: 28
- Clio Medica, Volume: 28
This collection of papers â some of which written by the worldâs leading specialists in the area of ancient medicine â aims at promoting an integrated approach to medical theory and practice in classical antiquity. Questions of health and disease are considered in their relation to the social, intellectual, moral and religious dimensions of the ancient world. The papers focus on the socio-cultural setting of the experience of pain and illness, the different reactions they provoked and the importance that was attached to this experience in literature, religion and philosophy.
The first volume offers articles (from an archaeological, historical and philological point of view) dealing with social, institutional and geographical aspects of medical practice. It also has a special section on medical views on women, children and sexuality, and on female medical activity.
The second volume focuses on the ways in which religious and magical beliefs influenced the experience of, and the attitude towards, illness and medical practice. It also deals with the relations of medicine with philosophy, and the other sciences and with the variety of linguistic and textual forms in which medical knowledge was expressed and communicated.
Contributors to the second volume are Darrel W. Amundsen, Angelos Chaniotis, Philip J. van der Eijk, Elsa GarcÃa Novo, Burkhard Gladigow, Richard Gordon, Katerina Ierodiakonou, Alberto Jori, Karl-Heinz Leven, James Longrigg, Harm Pinkster, I. RodrÃguez Alfageme, Ineke Sluiter, Heinrich von Staden, Gilles Susong, Teun Tieleman, and M. Vegetti.
The first volume offers articles (from an archaeological, historical and philological point of view) dealing with social, institutional and geographical aspects of medical practice. It also has a special section on medical views on women, children and sexuality, and on female medical activity.
The second volume focuses on the ways in which religious and magical beliefs influenced the experience of, and the attitude towards, illness and medical practice. It also deals with the relations of medicine with philosophy, and the other sciences and with the variety of linguistic and textual forms in which medical knowledge was expressed and communicated.
Contributors to the second volume are Darrel W. Amundsen, Angelos Chaniotis, Philip J. van der Eijk, Elsa GarcÃa Novo, Burkhard Gladigow, Richard Gordon, Katerina Ierodiakonou, Alberto Jori, Karl-Heinz Leven, James Longrigg, Harm Pinkster, I. RodrÃguez Alfageme, Ineke Sluiter, Heinrich von Staden, Gilles Susong, Teun Tieleman, and M. Vegetti.
âThe skill and high standards of the editors have transformed what could have been merely another dreary volume of congress proceedings into a very useful work. The volumes have been handsomely produced, and their contents are made more accessible by the addition of a comprehensive general index as well as indices of both literary sources and inscriptions and papyri. ⦠a valuable collection of essays that constitutes a significant contribution to the study of Greco-Roman medicine.â in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 72, Issue 2 (1998)
PART 3: RELIGIOUS AND MAGIC ATTITUDES TOWARDS DISEASE AND HEALING
Illness and cures in the Greek propitiatory inscriptions and dedications of Lydia and Phrygia
Angelos CHANIOTIS
Anatomia sacra. Religiös motivierte Eingriffe in menschliche oder tierische Körper
Burkhard GLADIGOW
The healing event in Graeco-Roman folk-medicine
Richard GORDON
Tatian's 'rejection' of medicine in the second century
Darrel W. AMUNDSEN
Athumia and philanthrôpia. Social reactions to plagues in late antiquity and early Byzantine society
Karl-Heinz LEVEN
PART 4: MEDICINE AS A SCIENCE AND ITS RELATION TO PHILOSOPHY
Le pepaideumenos et la médecine
Alberto JORI
La référence médicale non-hippocratique dans les dialogues de Platon
Gilles SUSONG
Medicine and the Lyceum
James LONGRIGG
Aristotle on 'distinguished physicians' and on the medical significance of dreams
Philip J. van der EIJK
L'épistémologie d'Ãrasistrate et la technologie hellénistique
M. VEGETTI
Alexander of Aphrodisias on medicine as a stochastic art
Katerina IERODIAKONOU
Dialectic and science: Galen, Herophilus and Aristotle on phenomena
Teun TIELEMAN
PART 5: LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY ASPECTS OF MEDICAL TEXTS
Science as text, science as history: Galen on metaphor
Heinrich von STADEN
The embarrassment of imperfection: Galen's assessment of Hippocrates' linguistic merits
Ineke SLUITER
Structure and style in the Hippocratic treatise Prorrheticon 2
Elsa GARCÃA NOVO
Notes on the syntax of Celsus
Harm PINKSTER
PART 6: THE ROLE OF MEDICAL THEMES IN LITERATURE
La médecine technique dans la comédie attique
I. RodrÃguez ALFAGEME
General index
Index locorum
Illness and cures in the Greek propitiatory inscriptions and dedications of Lydia and Phrygia
Angelos CHANIOTIS
Anatomia sacra. Religiös motivierte Eingriffe in menschliche oder tierische Körper
Burkhard GLADIGOW
The healing event in Graeco-Roman folk-medicine
Richard GORDON
Tatian's 'rejection' of medicine in the second century
Darrel W. AMUNDSEN
Athumia and philanthrôpia. Social reactions to plagues in late antiquity and early Byzantine society
Karl-Heinz LEVEN
PART 4: MEDICINE AS A SCIENCE AND ITS RELATION TO PHILOSOPHY
Le pepaideumenos et la médecine
Alberto JORI
La référence médicale non-hippocratique dans les dialogues de Platon
Gilles SUSONG
Medicine and the Lyceum
James LONGRIGG
Aristotle on 'distinguished physicians' and on the medical significance of dreams
Philip J. van der EIJK
L'épistémologie d'Ãrasistrate et la technologie hellénistique
M. VEGETTI
Alexander of Aphrodisias on medicine as a stochastic art
Katerina IERODIAKONOU
Dialectic and science: Galen, Herophilus and Aristotle on phenomena
Teun TIELEMAN
PART 5: LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY ASPECTS OF MEDICAL TEXTS
Science as text, science as history: Galen on metaphor
Heinrich von STADEN
The embarrassment of imperfection: Galen's assessment of Hippocrates' linguistic merits
Ineke SLUITER
Structure and style in the Hippocratic treatise Prorrheticon 2
Elsa GARCÃA NOVO
Notes on the syntax of Celsus
Harm PINKSTER
PART 6: THE ROLE OF MEDICAL THEMES IN LITERATURE
La médecine technique dans la comédie attique
I. RodrÃguez ALFAGEME
General index
Index locorum