from the heroic to the Hellenistic age : a source book /
First Statement of Responsibility
James Longrigg.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1998, 2012.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
vii, 244 p. ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-228) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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I. Pre-rational and irrational medicine in ancient Greece and neighbouring cultures -- II. The rise and development of rational medicine in ancient Greece -- III. Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century I: Alcmaeon and the Presocratic philosophers -- IV. The Hippocratic Corpus and the Hippocratic question -- V. Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century II: Presocratic philosophy and the Hippocratic Corpus -- VI. Philosophy and medicine until the fourth century: 'Sicilian' medicine and its influence -- VII. Early Alexandrian medical science -- VIII. Hippocratic deontology -- IX. Disease and human physiology -- X. Epidemic disease -- XI. Prognosis and diagnosis -- XII. Dietetics and regimen -- XIII. Pharmacology -- XIV. Anatomy -- XV. Surgery -- XVI. Gynaecology.