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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 September 2008
      14 August 2008
      ISBN:
      9781139001908
      9780521819541
      9780521525589
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521819541
      Dimensions:
      (222 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.86kg, 476 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (222 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.75kg, 472 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Philosophy, Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
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    Galen of Pergamum (AD 129–c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for more than fifteen hundred years. He was a prolific writer on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis and prognosis, pulse-doctrine, pharmacology, therapeutics, and the theory of medicine; but he also wrote extensively on philosophical topics, making original contributions to logic and the philosophy of science, and outlining a scientific epistemology which married a deep respect for empirical adequacy with a commitment to rigorous rational exposition and demonstration. He was also a vigorous polemicist, deeply involved in the doctrinal disputes among the medical schools of his day. This volume offers an introduction to and overview of Galen's achievement in all these fields, while seeking also to evaluate that achievement in the light of the advances made in Galen scholarship over the past thirty years.

    Reviews

    '… essential reading for those in and out of the medical field.'

    Source: SciTech Book News

    'Hankinson has produced a very useful and informative volume, which, much in keeping with new appreciation of Galen described by Nutton, addresses the many facets of Galen: physician and medical researcher, to be sure, but also philosopher and man of letters.'

    Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

    'This volume is among the most important, not to say useful, volumes that Cambridge University Press has produced. Galen is a myrtle.'

    Source: Medical History

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    • 13 - Commentary
      pp 323-354
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