Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease

ISBN: 9780521142977 出版年：2005 页码：420 Philip J Van der Eijk Cambridge University Press

Acknowledgements Note on translations Note on abbreviations Introduction Part I. Hippocratic Corpus and Diocles of Carystus: 1. The 'theology' of the Hippocratic treatise On the Sacred Disease 2. Diocles and the Hippocratic writings on the method of dietetics and the limits of causal explanation 3. To help, or to do no harm: principles and practices of therapeutics in the Hippocratic Corpus and in the work of Diocles of Carystus 4. The heart, the brain, the blood and the pneuma: Hippocrates, Diocles and Aristotle on the location of cognitive processes Part II. Aristotle and His School: 5. Aristotle on melancholy 6. Theoretical and empirical elements in Aristotle's treatment of sleep, dreams and divination in sleep 7. The matter of mind: Aristotle on the biology of 'psychic' processes and the bodily aspects of thinking 8. Divine movement and human nature in Eudemian Ethics 8.2 9. On sterility ('Hist. an. 10'), a medical work by Aristotle? Part III. Late Antiquity: 10. Galen's use of the concept of 'qualified experience' in his dietetic and pharmacological works 11. The Methodism of Caelius Aurelianus: some epistemological issues Bibliography Index of passages cited General index.