Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen: Selected Papers

Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen; Copyright; Contents; Editorial Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Translations and Abbreviations; Part One: Classical Greek Medicine in Its Historical, Literary and Cultural Context; Chapter One: Egyptian Medicine and Greek Medicine; Chapter Two: Politics and Medicine. The Problem of Change in Regimen in Acute Diseases and Thucydides (Book 6); Chapter Three: Rhetoric and Medicine in the Hippocratic Corpus. A Contribution to the History of Rhetoric in the Fifth Century; Chapter Four: Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy.;This volume makes available in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on Greek and Roman medicine, ranging from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity.