Sophia Xenophontos

Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009247825
• Artikelnr.: 70909705

Autorenporträt

Sophia Xenophontos is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is the author of Ethical Education in Plutarch: Moralising Agents and Contexts (2016) and Georgios Pachymeres' Commentary on Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics': Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Galen, the Unsuspected Moralist
Part I. Moral themes and types of moralism in Galen: 1. General Protreptic and Suggested Approaches to Life
2. Practical Ethics in Technical Accounts
3. Moral Medicine
Part II. Case Studies: 4. Avoiding Distress
5. Exhortation to the Study of Medicine
6. Affections and Errors of the Soul
7. Recognising the Best Physician
8. Prognosis
Conclusion.