Galen and the World of Knowledge (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gill, Christopher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD. This volume of essays locates him firmly in the intellectual life of his period, and thus aims to make better sense of the medical and philosophical 'world of knowledge' that he tries to create. How did Galen present himself as a reader and an author in comparison with other intellectuals of his day? Above all, how did he fashion himself as a medical practitioner, and how does that self-fashioning relate to the performance culture of second-century Rome? Did he see medicine as taking over some of the traditional roles of philosophy? These and other questions are freshly addressed by leading international experts on Galen and the intellectual life of the period, in a stimulating collection that combines learning with accessibility.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511847950
• Artikelnr.: 52847573

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh and John Wilkins; 1. Galen's
library Vivian Nutton; 2. Conventions of prefatory self-presentation in
Galen's On the Order of My Own Books Jason König; 3. Demiurge and emperor
in Galen's world of knowledge Rebecca Flemming; 4. Shock and awe: the
performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations Maud Gleason; 5.
Galen's un-Hippocratic case-histories G. E. R. Lloyd; 6. Staging the past,
staging oneself: Galen on Hellenistic exegetical traditions Heinrich von
Staden; 7. Galen and Hippocratic medicine: language and practice Daniela
Manetti; 8. Galen's Bios and Methodos: from ways of life to paths of
knowledge Véronique Boudon-Millot; 9. Does Galen have a medical programme
for intellectuals and the faculties of the intellect? Jacques Jouanna; 10.
Galen on the limitations of knowledge R. J. Hankinson; 11. Galen and Middle
Platonism Riccardo Chiaradonna; 12. 'Aristotle! What a thing for you to
say!' Galen's engagement with Aristotle and Aristotelians Philip van der
Eijk; 13. Galen and the Stoics, or: the art of not naming Teun Tieleman.