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Ancient Histories of Medicine: Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiography in Classical Antiquity

Ancient Histories of Medicine: Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiography in Classical Antiquity

Van Der Eijk, P. J.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine, Book 20

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ISBN10: 9004105557
ISBN13: 9789004105553
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Published: Sep 15 1999
Pages: 537
Weight: 2.45
Height: 1.58 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.68
Language: English
This collection of essays focuses on the ways in which Greek and Latin authors viewed and wrote about the history of medicine in the ancient world. Special attention is given to medical doxography, i.e. the description of the characteristic doctrines of the great medical authorities of the past.
The volume examines the various attitudes to the history of medicine adopted by a wide range of ancient writers (e.g. Aristotle, Galen, Celsus, Herophilus, Soranus, Oribasius, Caelius Aurelianus). It discusses the historical sense of ancient medicine, the variety of versions of the medical past that were created and the wide range of purposes and strategies which medico-historical writing served. It also deals with the question of the sources, the role of historiographical traditions and the variety of literary genres of ancient medico-historical writing.

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