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Galen: writings on health. Thrasybulus and Health (De …

WebPreview . This impressive book is the third volume to appear in the Cambridge Galen Translations Series (general editor: Philip J. van der Eijk), after …

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Plato’s Rivalry with Medicine: A Struggle and Its Dissolution

WebBy demonstrating conceptual parallels, Levin works under the defensible view that Plato was familiar with the core tenets of the medical milieu reflected in …

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Galen’s epistemology: experience, reason, and method in …

WebPreview [Authors and titles are listed at the end of the review.] I must confess to having something of a guilt complex about Dr. Galen. When composing The Middle …

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Health and Hedonism in Plato and Epicurus

WebArenson’s Health and Hedonism offers an arresting comparative study of Plato’s treatments of pleasure in the Republic (ch. 1) and the Philebus (chs. 2-3), the …

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Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, Fourteenth Volume, …

WebThe fourteenth volume of Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar is also the fiftieth volume of Francis Cairns’ ARCA series Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs.The …

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A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical …

WebChiara Thumiger, A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought.Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Health in Antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

WebIn the introduction, the editor usefully discusses the plurality of definitions given for health both in antiquity and the modern world, ranging from the absence of …

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Streets and Streams: Health Conditions and City Planning …

Web[The Table of Contents is listed below.] Roman toilets, effluvia, streets and sewers are topics for several important monographs and edited volumes that have appeared in the last …

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Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Social and …

WebPreview [The Table of Contents is listed below.] Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the discipline of Classics has seen a deluge of scholarship taking a leaf out of the book of …

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Galen’s Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, …

WebBMCR 2019.08.53 Galen’s Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation. Studies in ancient medicine, 51

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Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: from Celsus to Paul of Aegina

WebPreview [The Table of Contents is listed below.] Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine is volume 50 in Brill’s series ‘Studies in Ancient Medicine’. 1 It is a collection of …

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Patients and Healers in the High Roman Empire

WebThe first (“The Identity of Physicians during the High Roman Empire”) traces the establishment of medicine in its Hellenized form in the Roman world, and specifically …

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Hippocrates’ Woman. Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece

WebReading the Female Body in Ancient Greece – Bryn Mawr Classical Review. BMCR 2000.07.20. Hippocrates’ Woman. Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece. …

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The invention of medicine: a history from Homer to Hippocrates

WebThe Invention of Medicine, longlisted for the 2021 Runciman Award, is a most welcome contribution to this ever-growing field by one of today’s most eminent voices in …

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Plato and the Body: Reconsidering Socratic Asceticism

WebReview by. Preview. This book challenges a prevailing orthodoxy that Plato viewed embodiment as inimical to philosophical endeavor and preached an austere kind of …

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Hippocrates. Volume XI: Diseases of Women 1-2

WebVolume XI: Diseases of Women 1-2. The Loeb classical library, 538 . The Loeb classical library, 538. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. 528 pages. …

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Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice. Ancient Cultures

WebBMCR 2011.08.37 Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice. Ancient Cultures

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Roman Medicine – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

WebUnhappily the book has gone out of print. 3. It has become fashionable in some quarters to deny that the Romans did much about “public health” in their cities, in …

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Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean World

WebPreview. This book contains an interesting collection of forty-two papers arising from two events, both held in Nicosia, Cyprus, in 2008: a) an international …

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