Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease

by Philip J. van der Eijk and Philip J. Van Der Eijk

Book Overview

This work brings together Philip van der Eijk's previously published essays on the close connections that existed between medicine and philosophy throughout antiquity. Medical authors such as the Hippocratic writers, Diocles, Galen, Soranus and Caelius Aurelianus elaborated on philosophical methods such as causal explanation, definition and division and applied key concepts such as the notion of nature to their understanding of the human body. Similarly,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521142970
• ISBN13: 9780521142977
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"