Luis García-Ballester, Jon Arrizabalaga, Montserrat Cabré, Lluís Cifuentes

Galen and Galenism (eBook, PDF)

Theory and Medical Practice from Antiquity to the European Renaissance

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Galenism, a rational, coherent medical system embracing all health and disease related matters, was the dominant medical doctrine in the Latin West during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Deriving from the medical and philosophical views of Galen (129-c.210/6) as well as from his clinical practice, Latin Galenism had its origins in 12th-century

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040237885
• Artikelnr.: 72277021

Autorenporträt

Luis García-Ballester, Jon Arrizabalaga. Montserrat Cabré, Lluís Cifuentes

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Galen: Galen's medical works in the context of his biography; Galen as a clinician: his methods in diagnosis; Soul and body, disease of the soul and disease of the body in Galen's medical thought; On the origin of the 'Six non-natural things' in Galen; Galenism: The New Galen: a challenge to Latin Galenism in 13th-century Montpellier; Artifex factivus sanitatis: health and medical care in medieval Latin Galenism; The construction of a new form of learning and practising medicine in medieval Latin Europe; La recepción del Colliget de Averroes en Montpellier (c. 1285) y su influencia en las polémicas sobre la naturaleza de la fiebre; La fiebre y la doctrina de las cualidades y los grados, según Arnau de Vilanova; Galenism and medical teaching at the University of Salamanca in the 15th century; The circulation and use of medical manuscripts in Arabic in 16th-century Spain; Index.

Rezensionen

'Every haunter of research library stacks knows the blue covers and gold-colored lettering of the Variorum Collected Studies series.' Sixteenth Century Journal '... such a collection is valuable...' Medical History