Product Description: This work brings together Philip van der Eijk's previously published essays on the close connections that existed between medicine and philosophy throughout antiquity. Medical authors such as the Hippocratic writers, Diocles, Galen, Soranus and Caelius Aurelianus elaborated on philosophical methods such as causal explanation, definition and division and applied key concepts such as the notion of nature to their understanding of the human body...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays focuses on the ways in which Greek and Latin authors viewed and wrote about the history of medicine in the ancient world. Special attention is given to medical doxography, that is the description of the characteristic doctrines of the great medical authorities of the past...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Volume 2: The international congress Ancient Medicine in its Socio-Cultural Context held at Leiden University in April 1992 aimed at promoting an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to problems of health and disease in the Greco-Roman world...read more