Greek Medical Literature and Its Readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium

ISBN-13: 9780367593209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos; Sophia Xenophontos

Opis

This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts and their audience(s), offering insights into how not only the backgrounds and skills of medical authors but also the contemporary environment affected issues of readership, methodology and mode of exposition.

Spis treści

Introduction, Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos  PART I The Classical World  1. Alcmaeon and His Addressees: Revisiting the Incipit, Stavros Kouloumentas  2. Gone with the Wind: Laughter and the Audience of the Hippocratic Treatises, Laurence Totelin  3. The Professional Audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics: Patient Cases in Hippocratic Scientific Communication, Chiara Thumiger  PART II The Imperial World  4. Galen’s Exhortation to the Study of Medicine: An Educational Work for Prospective Medical Students, Sophia Xenophontos  5. An Interpretation of the Preface to Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems 1 by Ps.-Alexander of Aphrodisias in Light of Medical Education, Michiel Meeusen  PART III The Islamic World  6. The User-Friendly Galen: Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq and the Adaptation of Greek Medicine for a New Audience, Uwe Vagelpohl  7. Medical Knowledge as Proof of the Creator’s Wisdom and the Arabic Reception of Galen’s On the Usefulness of the Parts, Elvira Wakelnig  PART IV The Byzantine World  8. Physician versus Physician: Comparing the Audience of On the Constitution of Man by Meletios and Epitome on the Nature of Men by Leo the Physician, Erika Gielen  9. Reading Galen in Byzantium: The Fate of Therapeutics to Glaucon, Petros Bouras-Vallianatos