Galen And The World Of Knowledge
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Galen and the World of Knowledge
Author | : Christopher Gill,Tim Whitmarsh,John Wilkins |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2009-12-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781139482844 |
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Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD. This volume of essays locates him firmly in the intellectual life of his period, and thus aims to make better sense of the medical and philosophical 'world of knowledge' that he tries to create. How did Galen present himself as a reader and an author in comparison with other intellectuals of his day? Above all, how did he fashion himself as a medical practitioner, and how does that self-fashioning relate to the performance culture of second-century Rome? Did he see medicine as taking over some of the traditional roles of philosophy? These and other questions are freshly addressed by leading international experts on Galen and the intellectual life of the period, in a stimulating collection that combines learning with accessibility.
Galen and the World of Knowledge
Author | : Christopher Gill,Tim Whitmarsh,John Wilkins |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2009-12-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521767514 |
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This study places Galen more firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD.
Galen
Author | : Jeanne Bendick |
Publsiher | : Bethlehem Books |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2002-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781883937751 |
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We know about Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine. But we owe nearly as much to Galen, a physician born in 129 A.D. at the height of the Roman Empire. Galen's acute diagnoses of patients, botanical wisdom, and studies of physiology were recorded in numerous books, handed down through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Not least, Galen passed on the medical tradition of respect for life. In this fascinating biography for young people, Jeanne Bendick brings Galen's Roman world to life with the clarity, humor, and outstanding content we enjoyed in Archimedes and the Door to Science. An excellent addition to the home, school and to libraries. Illustrated by the Author.
Medicine and Paradoxography in the Ancient World
Author | : George Kazantzidis |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2019-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110661774 |
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The present volume offers a systematic discussion of the complex relationship between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world. For a long time, the relationship between the two has been assumed to be virtually non-existent. Paradoxography is concerned with disclosing a world full of marvels and wondrous occurrences without providing an answer as to how these phenomena can be explained. Its main aim is to astonish and leave its readers bewildered and confused. By contrast, medicine is committed to the rational explanation of human phusis, which makes it, in a number of significant ways, incompatible with thauma. This volume moves beyond the binary opposition between ‘rational’ and ‘non-rational’ modes of thinking, by focusing on instances in which the paradox is construed with direct reference to established medical sources and beliefs or, inversely, on cases in which medical discourse allows space for wonder and admiration. Its aim is to show that thauma, rather than present a barrier, functions as a concept which effectively allows for the dialogue between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world.
Galen s Epistemology
Author | : R. J. Hankinson,Matyáš Havrda |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-12-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 100907380X |
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Determining what has gone wrong in a malfunctioning body and proposing an effective treatment requires expertise. Since antiquity, philosophers and doctors have wondered what sort of knowledge this expertise involves, and whether and how it can warrant its conclusions. Few people were as qualified to deal with these questions as Galen of Pergamum (129-ca. 216). A practising doctor with a keen interest in logic and natural science, he devoted much of his enormous literary output to the task of putting medicine on firm methodological grounds. At the same time he reflected on philosophical issues entailed by this project, such as the nature of experience, its relation to reason, the criteria of truth, and the methods of justification. This volume explores Galen's contributions to (mainly scientific) epistemology, as they arise in the specific inquiries and polemics of his works, as well as their legacy in the Islamic world.
The Oxford Handbook of Galen
Author | : Peter N. Singer,Honorary Research Fellow P N Singer,Ralph Mark Rosen,Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Classical Studies Ralph M Rosen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 761 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780190913687 |
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The Oxford Handbook of Galen provides a comprehensive overview of the life, work, and legacy of Galen (129--c. 216 CE), arguably the most important medical figure of the Graeco-Roman world. It contains essays by thirty leading experts on Galen's life and background, his medical theories, his therapeutic and clinical practices, and his philosophical contributions in the areas of logic, epistemology, causation, scientific method, and ethics. The authors also discuss the most important pathways of the transmission of his texts and his intellectual legacy, from late antiquity to early modern times and from western Europe to Tibet and China.
Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato s Timaeus
Author | : Aileen R. Das |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2020-11-12 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781108499484 |
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Examines how Galen and his medieval Arabic successors invoke Plato's Timaeus to reimagine medicine and philosophy.
Galen and Chrysippus on the Soul
Author | : Teun Tieleman |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789004320925 |
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In this work, new light is thrown on the philosophical method of the great Stoic Chrysippus on the basis of the fragments preserved by Galen in his De Placitis books II-III. Included is a study of Galen's aims and methodologies.