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Greek rational medicine : philosophy and medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians

Author: James Longrigg
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James Longrigg
ISBN: 041502594X 9780415025942
OCLC Number: 26397946
Description: ix, 296 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Pre-rational and irrational medicine in Greece and neighbouring cultures -- 2. Ionian natural philosophy and the origins of rational medicine -- 3. Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century I: Alcmaeon and the pre-Socratic philosophers -- 4. Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century II: Pre-Socratic philosophy and the Hippocratic Corpus -- 5. Post-Hippocratic medicine I: Medicine and the Academy -- 6. Post-Hippocratic medicine II: Medicine from Lyceum to Museum -- 7. Early Alexandrian medical science -- Appendix: The role of the opposites in pre-Aristotelian physics.
Responsibility: James Longrigg.
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