"This book brilliantly reflects the tendency of the new historiography of science to understand medical theory and practice against the background of comprehensive cultural, historical, and philosophical developments. The author expertly applies this view to an extraordinarily serious issue in the healing arts of antiquity. Veterans as well as novices in the field might expect a true intellectual pleasure reopening the discussion on the old and well-known dictum 'Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus'."-Prof. Dr. med. Axel Karenberg, Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, University of Cologne, Germany
Dmitry A. Balalykin is a Russian historian of medicine, deputy Chairman of the Russian Society of Medical Historians, Editor-in-Chief of History of medicine. The Russian journal (Scopus-indexed), Doctor of Medical Sciences (RF, 2003), Doctor of Historical Sciences (RF, 2007), PhD in Philosophy (EU, 2019).Dmitry A. Balalykin and his team have translated into Russian and published 22 treatises of Galen. Balalykin is the author of more than 200 scientific publications on topical issues of the history of philosophy and the history of medicine.
