Medicine and philosophy in classical antiquity: doctors and philosophers on nature, soul, health and disease

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Note on translations......Page 15
Note on abbreviations......Page 16
1 from appropriation to alienation: developments in the study of ancient medicine......Page 17
2 philosophy and medicine in context......Page 24
3 aristotle and his school......Page 30
4 philosophical interests of medical writers......Page 34
5 medicine beyond ‘hippocrates’......Page 37
6 the textuality and intertextuality of medicine and philosophy......Page 45
7 historiography, tradition and self-definition......Page 57
part i Hippocratic Corpus and Diocles of Carystus......Page 59
1 introduction......Page 61
2 the divinity of diseases......Page 64
3 reconstructions of the author’s theology......Page 76
4 conclusion......Page 86
Postscript......Page 88
1 introduction......Page 90
2 interpretation of fragment 176......Page 92
3 the identity of diocles’ opponents......Page 102
4 diocles’ position in dietetics and in the philosophy of science......Page 108
Postscript......Page 116
1 introduction......Page 117
2 the early history of therapeutics......Page 118
3 the aims of therapeutic activity......Page 130
1 the debate in antiquity on the location of the mind: origin, development and misrepresentation......Page 135
2 greek doctors and philosophers of the fifth and fourth centuries bce......Page 140
3 three approaches to epilepsy......Page 147
part ii Aristotle and his school......Page 153
1 introduction......Page 155
2 melancholy in the parva naturalia and the eudemian ethics......Page 157
3 melancholy in the nicomachean ethics......Page 164
4 black bile in physiology......Page 168
5 the theory on melancholy in problemata 30.1......Page 171
6 the aristotelian character of the theory in the problemata......Page 176
7 conclusion......Page 183
1 pre-aristotelian views on sleep and dreams......Page 185
2 the context of aristotle’s treatises on sleep and dreams......Page 190
3 on dreams......Page 195
4 on divination in sleep......Page 202
5 a medical endoxon......Page 208
6 a democritean element......Page 217
1 psychology, biology, and variations in cognitive performances......Page 222
2 the bodily aspects of thinking......Page 233
chapter 8 Divine movement and human nature in Eudemian Ethics 8.2......Page 254
Postscript......Page 274
chapter 9 On Sterility (‘Hist. an. 10’), a medical work by Aristotle?......Page 275
Postscript......Page 291
part iii Late antiquity......Page 293
1 introduction......Page 295
2 galen on diorismos......Page 298
3 the originality of galen’s position......Page 307
4 the conceptualisation of power and effect......Page 309
5 consequences for the question of experiment in galen’s pharmacology......Page 313
chapter 11 The Methodism of Caelius Aurelianus: some epistemological issues......Page 315
1 the (un)observable......Page 322
2 causal explanation......Page 327
3 definitions......Page 331
4 ratio and experimentum......Page 337
5 conclusion......Page 343
Bibliography......Page 344
Index of passages cited......Page 395
General index......Page 412