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The Cosmological Doctors of Classical Greece: First Principles in Early Greek Medicine

Autor David H. Camden
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 mai 2023
Why did some doctors in Classical Greece feel compelled to study the universe as a whole? How could cosmological principles be employed in clinical practice? This book explores the works of the cosmological doctors, such as On Breaths, On Flesh, and On Regimen, and argues that they form part of a much broader reorganization of medical knowledge in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. These healers used cosmological principles as a supplement to, rather than a replacement of, more traditional approaches to health and disease, creating theories about the cosmos whose obscurities can best be understood as the products of medical thinking. Through fresh readings of many ancient sources, the book revises customary views of the intersections between medicine and cosmology in Classical Greece and advances our understanding of one of the most remarkable periods in the history of ancient thought.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009202992
ISBN-10: 1009202995
Pagini: 348
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction; 1. Three second-hand reports; 2. On the nature of the human being; 3. On breaths; 4. The cosmological impulse; 5. On flesh; 6. On regimen; Conclusion; Bibliography.

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Descriere

The first comprehensive study of the origins, motivations, and methods of Greek doctors who investigated the universe as a whole.