Galen on Anatomical Procedures
Title | Galen on Anatomical Procedures PDF eBook |
Author | Galen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2010-03-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108009441 |
This edition of Galen's Anatomical Procedures (c. AD 200) offers parts of book 9 and books 10-15.
Cutting Words - Polemical Dimensions of Galen's Anatomical Experiments
Title | Cutting Words - Polemical Dimensions of Galen's Anatomical Experiments PDF eBook |
Author | Luis Alejandro Salas |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2020-11-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 900444386X |
Luis Alejandro Salas’ book, Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments, examines Galen’s experimental writing. In four case studies, it argues that Galen exploits writing as a surrogate for live performance and, in some cases, an improvement upon it.
Galen and the World of Knowledge
Title | Galen and the World of Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Gill |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2009-12-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0521767512 |
This study places Galen more firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD.
The Prince of Medicine
Title | The Prince of Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Susan P. Mattern |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2013-06-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199986150 |
Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216) began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great distinction as one of a small circle of court physicians to the family of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, at the very heart of Roman society. Susan Mattern's The Prince of Medicine offers the first authoritative biography in English of this brilliant, audacious, and profoundly influential figure. Like many Greek intellectuals living in the high Roman Empire, Galen was a prodigious polymath, writing on subjects as varied as ethics and eczema, grammar and gout. Indeed, he was (as he claimed) as highly regarded in his lifetime for his philosophical works as for his medical treatises. However, it is for medicine that he is most remembered today, and from the later Roman Empire through the Renaissance, medical education was based largely on his works. Even up to the twentieth century, he remained the single most influential figure in Western medicine. Yet he was a complicated individual, full of breathtaking arrogance, shameless self-promotion, and lacerating wit. He was fiercely competitive, once disemboweling a live monkey and challenging the physicians in attendance to correctly replace its organs. Relentless in his pursuit of anything that would cure the patient, he insisted on rigorous observation and, sometimes, daring experimentation. Even confronting one of history's most horrific events--a devastating outbreak of smallpox--he persevered, bearing patient witness to its predations, year after year. The Prince of Medicine gives us Galen as he lived his life, in the city of Rome at its apex of power and decadence, among his friends, his rivals, and his patients. It offers a deeply human and long-overdue portrait of one of ancient history's most significant and engaging figures.
Galen's System of Physiology and Medicine
Title | Galen's System of Physiology and Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Rudolph E. Siegel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN |
Three Treatises on the Nature of Science
Title | Three Treatises on the Nature of Science PDF eBook |
Author | Galen |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1985-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780915145928 |
Contents: Introduction , Bibliography On the Sects for Beginners An Outline of Empiricism On Medical Experience Index of the Persons Mentioned in the Texts Index of the Subjects Mentioned in the Texts
The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates PDF eBook |
Author | Peter E. Pormann |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 2018-11-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1108593607 |
Hippocrates is a towering figure in Greek medicine. Dubbed the 'father of medicine', he has inspired generations of physicians over millennia in both the East and West. Despite this, little is known about him, and scholars have long debated his relationship to the works attributed to him in the so-called 'Hippocratic Corpus', although it is undisputed that many of the works within it represent milestones in the development of Western medicine. In this Companion, an international team of authors introduces major themes in Hippocratic studies, ranging from textual criticism and the 'Hippocratic question' to problems such as aetiology, physiology and nosology. Emphasis is given to the afterlife of Hippocrates from Late Antiquity to the modern period. Hippocrates had as much relevance in the fifth-century BC Greek world as in the medieval Islamic world, and he remains with us today in both medical and non-medical contexts.