Ancient Histories of Medicine: Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiography in Classical Antiquity (Studies in Ancient Medicine): 20 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004105557 ISBN 13: 9789004105553

Publisher: Brill, 1999

Synopsis

This collection of essays focuses on the ways in which Greek and Latin authors viewed and wrote about the history of medicine in the ancient world. Special attention is given to medical doxography, that is the description of the characteristic doctrines of the great medical authorities of the past.

About this title

Review:

'...the first book on the subject - at least in English - in decades. It will be of equal interest to classicists and medical historians, as well as to those studying the doxography of other subjects.'
C.F. Salazar, The Classical Review, 2001.

About the Author:

Philip J. van der Eijk, Ph.D. (1991), Leiden, is Professor of Greek at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He has published widely on ancient philosophy, medicine, science, comparative literature and patristics. He is the author of Aristoteles. De insomniis. De divinatione per somnum (Berlin), 1994), and co-editor of Ancient Medicine in its Socio-Cultural Context (Amsterdam-Atlanta, 1995).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 9004105557
• ISBN 13: 9789004105553
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 537
• Editor: Van Der Eijk P J