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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.
€110.00$151.00
Employing the logical tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, this book places the pseudo-Hippocratic treatise On the Art of Medicine in its proper philosophical, rhetorical, and medical contexts through a new translation and commentary on the Greek text.
€165.00$229.00
Mental Disorders in the Classical World seeks to show through interdisciplinary work how the first medical scientists and their lay contemporaries conceptualized mental disorders and attempted to diagnose, understand and treat them.
€136.00$176.00
Drawing on philological studies, social history and anthropology, this book offers the first extended study of the recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. It examines the links between oral and written traditions in the transmission of ancient pharmacological knowledge.
€158.00$205.00
This study of the reception of Paul of Aegina's handbook (or pragmateia) in the Syriac and Arabic traditions provides fascinating new insights into Greek-Syriac-Arabic translation techniques and the impact of Greek medical theory on the development of Islamic medicine.
€206.00$267.00
Diocles of Carystus was one of the most prominent medical authorities in antiquity. This two volume set presents all the Greek, Latin and Arabic sources for his views with facing English translation, a commentary and a discussion of their intellectual context.
€119.00$154.00
This volume is the first monograph to deal with the subject of battle trauma in antiquity; it discusses medical and practical aspects of wound treatment, war wounds as a topos in literature and the archaeological evidence.
€158.00$205.00
This edition of the Stephanus Commentary on Galen's Therapeutics to Glaucon sheds important light on the nature and extent of medical education in the West on the eve of the Arab conquest.
€158.00$205.00
Diet for an Emperor presents the first translation into English of Books 1 and 4 of the Medical Compilations of Oribasius, together with a commentary assessing the medical theories behind this invaluable source of information on food and diet in the Roman Empire.