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Galen’s Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation de Keith Andrew Stewart

Galen’s Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation: Studies in Ancient Medicine, cartea 51

Autor Keith Andrew Stewart
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 oct 2018
In Galen’s Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation Keith Stewart investigates Galen’s writing on black bile to explain health and disease and shows that Galen sometimes presented this humour as three substances with different properties that can either be harmful or beneficial to the body.Keith Stewart analyses the most important treatises for Galen’s physical description and characteristion of black bile and challenges certain views on the development of this humour, such as the importance of the content of the Hippocratic On the Nature of Man. This analysis allows us to understand how and why Galen defines and uses black bile in different ways for his arguments that cannot always be reconciled with the content of his sources.
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ISBN-13: 9789004382787
ISBN-10: 900438278X
Pagini: 178
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Studies in Ancient Medicine

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Galen and the History of Black Bile1The Origins of Black Bile and Humoral Theory2Galen’s Doxographical Explanation for the History of Black Bile3Summary
2 Key Influences on Galen’s Writing on Black Bile1The Importance of Philosophy in Galen’s Interpretation of the Hippocratic Corpus2The Influence of Galen’s Teachers on His Views Concerning Medical Theory3Galen’s Opinion on the Authenticity of the Hippocratic Writings4Galen’s Polemic against Those He Considers to be Opposed to Humoral Theory5Summary
3 Galen’s Qualitative and Structural Characterisation of Black Bile1The Essential Properties of Black Bile2Physical Descriptions of Black Bile3Summary
4 Galen’s Distinction of Different Types of Black Bile1The Different Types of Black Bile in Galen’s Writing2A Question of Consistency in Galen’s Characterisation of Black Bile3Summary
5 Galen’s Explanation of Harmful Black Bile1The Properties of Altered Black Bile and How This Makes It a Potentially Harmful Substance in the Body2Summary
6 The Cleansing of Harmful Black Bile from the Body1The Importance of the Liver for the Origin of Black Bile in the Body2The Relationship between the Structure of the Spleen and Its Function3Galen’s Attack on Asclepiades and Erasistratus on the Function of the Spleen to Cleanse the Body of Black Bile4Diseases of the Spleen in Relation to the Harmful Nature of Black Bile5Summary
7 The Diseases Caused by Black Bile1Melancholy, the Black Bile Disease2Quartan Fever, the Black Bile Fever3Cases where the Presence of Black Bile Indicates a Terminal Disease4Summary
8 Conclusion
BibliographyIndexIndex of Sources

Recenzii

"With admirable clarity, Stewart states explicitly at the beginning of the book both the shortcomings of the (considerable) prior scholarship on black bile he seeks to remedy (5) and his plan for doing so (6). (...) Readers already interested in the subject will find Stewart’s treatment clear and ecumenical, while those new to the questions surrounding black bile will benefit from the introductory literature review." Courtney Roby, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.08.53

Notă biografică

Keith Andrew Stewart, Ph.D. (2017), University of Exeter, UK, is a teacher and tutor. He began his career as a scientist with a B.Sc. in Physics (1998), but has transferred to the humanities, teaching Classics and Ancient History.