Greek medical literature and its readers : from Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium / edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos.
This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts and their audience(s), offering insights into how not only the backgrounds and skills of medical authors but also the contemporary environment affected issues of readership, methodology and mode of exposition. One of the volume'...
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2018.
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| Series: | Publications (King's College London. Centre for Hellenic Studies) ;
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Table of Contents:
- PART 1. THE CLASSICAL WORLD, p.5
- alcmaeonand his addressees.revisiting the incipit, p.7
- gone with the wind.laughter and the audience of the hippocratic treatises, p.30
- the professional audiences of the hippocratic epidemics:patient cases in hippocratic scientific communication, p.48
- PART 2. THE IMPERIAL WORLD, p.65
- galen's exhortation to the study of medicine .an educational work for prospective medical students, p.67
- an interpretation of the preface to medical puzzles and natural problems, p.94
- PART 3. THE ISLAMIC WORLD, p.111
- the users friendly galen:hunayn ibn ishaq and the adaptation of greek medicine for a new audience, p.113
- medical knowledge as proof of the creator's wisdom and the arabic reception of galen'son the usefulness the parts, p.131
- PART 4. THE BYZANTINE WORLD, p.151
- physician versus physician:comparing the audience of on the constitution of man by meletios and epitome on the nature of men by leo the physician, p.153
- reading galen in byzantium:the fate of therapeutics to glaucon, p.180
- index, p.231.