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Ancient Medicine: Selected Papers of Ludwig Edelstein
ISBN: 9780801834912 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A classic study of medicine in antiquity, Ancient Medicine brings together much of Ludwig Edelstein's most important work on a subject that occupied him throughout a distinguished career. Included is his widely known translation of and commentary on the Hippocratic Oath, as well as his other writings on the oath which demonstrate how atypical it is of Greek medical thought. The book also explores the influence of empiricism and skepticism on Greek and Roman medicine, the practice of anatomy and dietetics in antiquity, and the relation of ancient medicine to ancient philosophy.
A classic study of medicine in antiquity, Ancient Medicine brings together much of Ludwig Edelstein's most important work on a subject that occupied h...
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The Idea of Progress in Classical Antiquity
ISBN: 9781421435572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Ludwig Edelstein characterizes the idea of "progress" in Greek and Roman times. He analyzes the ancients' belief in "a tendency inherent in nature or in man to pass through a regular sequence of stages of development in past, present, and future, the latter stages being-with perhaps occasional retardations or minor regressions-superior to the earlier." Edelstein's contemporaries asserted that the Greeks and Romans were entirely ignorant of a belief in progress in this sense of the term. In arguing against this dominant thesis, Edelstein draws from the conclusions of scholars of the nineteenth...
Ludwig Edelstein characterizes the idea of "progress" in Greek and Roman times. He analyzes the ancients' belief in "a tendency inherent in nature or ...
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207,21 zł |