The Oxford Handbook of Galen
Published on 29. August 2024
Book
Hardback
752 pages
978-0-19-091368-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Oxford Handbook of Galen provides a comprehensive overview of the life, work, and legacy of Galen (129--c. 216 CE), arguably the most important medical figure of the Graeco-Roman world. It contains essays by thirty leading experts on Galen's life and background, his medical theories, his therapeutic and clinical practices, and his philosophical contributions in the areas of logic, epistemology, causation, scientific method, and ethics.
The authors offer accessible, but thorough and detailed, analyses of all major areas of Galen's thought, considered in their original historical context, as well as of the most important pathways of the transmission of his texts and his intellectual legacy, from late antiquity to early modern times and from western Europe to Tibet and China.
The authors offer accessible, but thorough and detailed, analyses of all major areas of Galen's thought, considered in their original historical context, as well as of the most important pathways of the transmission of his texts and his intellectual legacy, from late antiquity to early modern times and from western Europe to Tibet and China.
Reviews / Votes
Not only the best entry point for scholars interested in Galen but also a useful reference work for active Galenic scholars, a most welcome collection that promises to be a valuable tool for years to come. Its scope is expansive, its content, erudite, and its presentation, clear. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review * The OHG is not only the best entry point for scholars interested in Galen but also a useful reference work for active Galenic scholars, a most welcome collection that promises to be a valuable tool for years to come. Its scope is expansive, its content, erudite, and its presentation, clear. * Jeffrey M. Hunt, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
22 figures, 3 maps
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 179 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1294 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-091368-7 (9780190913687)
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The Oxford Handbook of Galen
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05/2024
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P. N. Singer | Ralph M. Rosen
The Oxford Handbook of Galen
E-Book
05/2024
OUP eBook
€127.99
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Persons
P. N. Singer is a Research Fellow at the Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin, and an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. His publications include several volumes in the Cambridge Galen Translations series, Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina (co-edited with Chiara Thumiger), and Time for the Ancients: Measurement, Theory, Experience.
Ralph M. Rosen is Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Ancient Concepts of the Hippocratic (co-edited with Lesley Dean-Jones), Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire, several volumes in the Penn-Leiden series on Ancient Values (co-edited with Ineke Sluiter) and numerous other writings on Greek literature, ancient medicine, and intellectual history.
Ralph M. Rosen is Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Ancient Concepts of the Hippocratic (co-edited with Lesley Dean-Jones), Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire, several volumes in the Penn-Leiden series on Ancient Values (co-edited with Ineke Sluiter) and numerous other writings on Greek literature, ancient medicine, and intellectual history.
Content
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Chronology
PART 1: Medical and Intellectual Contexts
1. Introduction
P.N. Singer
2. Galen: Life and Works
Veronique Boudon-Millot
3. Philosophy, Science, and Psychology: Galen's Theory of "Soul" in its Intellectual Context
P. N. Singer
4. Galen, Rhetoric, and the Second Sophistic
Caroline Petit
5. Galen's Hippocratism
Sean Coughlin
6. Galen and Hellenistic Medicine
David Leith
7. Galen on Women: Gynecology and Female Patients
Rebecca Flemming
8. Galen's Pharmacology in Context
Julie Laskaris
9. Galenus Chirurgus: Galen as Surgeon
Lawrence J. Bliquez
PART 2: Topics and Works
10. Galen on Logic and Scientific Method
Matyas Havrda
11. Anatomy and Physiology
Luis Alejandro Salas
12. Physical and Causal Concepts
R. J. Hankinson
13. Pharmacology: Texts, Theories, and Practices
P. N. Singer, Matteo Martelli, and Lucia Raggetti
14. Pathology
Julien Devinant
15. Galen's Clinical Practice
Susan Mattern
16. Galen on Food, Diet, and the Healthy Life
John Wilkins
17. Galen on the Pulse: Theory and Method
Orly Lewis
18. Galen on Signs of Disease
Piero Tassinari
19. Ethical Works
Ralph M. Rosen
PART 3: Galen's Legacy
20. Galen in Late Imperial and Early Byzantine Periods
Christine Salazar
21. Galenism in Later Byzantium
Antoine Pietrobelli
22. Translation into Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew
Peter Pormann
23. Galen Beyond Baghdad
A. R. Das
24. Galen's Return to the West
Stefania Fortuna
25. Galen in Renaissance and Early Modern Debates
Hiro Hirai
26. Galenic Anatomy in the Long Renaissance
Vivian Nutton
27. Galen's Legacy in Jewish and Muslim Medical Traditions in Europe
Carmen Caballero Navas
28. Galenic Medicine in South Asia
Fabrizio Speziale
29. Galen in Premodern Tibet and China: Impressions and Footprints
Dror Weil and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Appendix: List of Galen's Works
Index
List of Contributors
Chronology
PART 1: Medical and Intellectual Contexts
1. Introduction
P.N. Singer
2. Galen: Life and Works
Veronique Boudon-Millot
3. Philosophy, Science, and Psychology: Galen's Theory of "Soul" in its Intellectual Context
P. N. Singer
4. Galen, Rhetoric, and the Second Sophistic
Caroline Petit
5. Galen's Hippocratism
Sean Coughlin
6. Galen and Hellenistic Medicine
David Leith
7. Galen on Women: Gynecology and Female Patients
Rebecca Flemming
8. Galen's Pharmacology in Context
Julie Laskaris
9. Galenus Chirurgus: Galen as Surgeon
Lawrence J. Bliquez
PART 2: Topics and Works
10. Galen on Logic and Scientific Method
Matyas Havrda
11. Anatomy and Physiology
Luis Alejandro Salas
12. Physical and Causal Concepts
R. J. Hankinson
13. Pharmacology: Texts, Theories, and Practices
P. N. Singer, Matteo Martelli, and Lucia Raggetti
14. Pathology
Julien Devinant
15. Galen's Clinical Practice
Susan Mattern
16. Galen on Food, Diet, and the Healthy Life
John Wilkins
17. Galen on the Pulse: Theory and Method
Orly Lewis
18. Galen on Signs of Disease
Piero Tassinari
19. Ethical Works
Ralph M. Rosen
PART 3: Galen's Legacy
20. Galen in Late Imperial and Early Byzantine Periods
Christine Salazar
21. Galenism in Later Byzantium
Antoine Pietrobelli
22. Translation into Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew
Peter Pormann
23. Galen Beyond Baghdad
A. R. Das
24. Galen's Return to the West
Stefania Fortuna
25. Galen in Renaissance and Early Modern Debates
Hiro Hirai
26. Galenic Anatomy in the Long Renaissance
Vivian Nutton
27. Galen's Legacy in Jewish and Muslim Medical Traditions in Europe
Carmen Caballero Navas
28. Galenic Medicine in South Asia
Fabrizio Speziale
29. Galen in Premodern Tibet and China: Impressions and Footprints
Dror Weil and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Appendix: List of Galen's Works
Index