The Art is Long. On the Sacred Disease and the Scientific Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art is Long. On the Sacred Disease and the Scientific Tradition write by Julie Laskaris. This book was released on 2002. The Art is Long. On the Sacred Disease and the Scientific Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Art is Long
The Art is Long - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art is Long write by Julie Laskaris. This book was released on 2018-07-17. The Art is Long available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines the fifth-century medical treatise, On the Sacred Disease, as a sophistic speech, and considers its position within the scientific tradition. The first part concerns conceptions of science, magic, and medicine; and establishes the antiquity of medicine as a specialized skill. The latter part analyzes the treatise in light of sophistic oratory, and explores its reception of traditional beliefs. This analysis shows that traditional beliefs, competition, and rhetoric contributed to the intellectual tradition of science. Traditional views are shown to have influenced ideas concerning physiology, and disease aetiology and transmission, Competition, expressed in the terms of sophistic debate, sharpened the author's arguments. On the Sacred Disease is important evidence for the influence on fifth-century medicine of both sophistic rhetoric and of older medical traditions.
Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece
Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece write by Bronwen L. Wickkiser. This book was released on 2008. Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Delving deeply into ancient medical history, Bronwen L. Wickkiser explores the early development and later spread of the cult of Asklepios, one of the most popular healing gods in the ancient Mediterranean. Though Asklepios had been known as a healer since the time of Homer, evidence suggests that large numbers of people began to flock to the cult during the fifth century BCE, just as practitioners of Hippocratic medicine were gaining dominance. Drawing on close readings of period medical texts, literary sources, archaeological evidence, and earlier studies, Wickkiser finds two primary causes for the cult’s ascendance: it filled a gap in the market created by the refusal of Hippocratic physicians to treat difficult chronic ailments and it abetted Athenian political needs. Wickkiser supports these challenging theories with side-by-side examinations of the medical practices at Asklepios' sanctuaries and those espoused in Hippocratic medical treatises. She also explores how Athens' aspirations to empire influenced its decision to open the city to the healer-god's cult. In focusing on the fifth century and by considering the medical, political, and religious dimensions of the cult of Asklepios, Wickkiser presents a complex, nuanced picture of Asklepios' rise in popularity, Athenian society, and ancient Mediterranean culture. The intriguing and sometimes surprising information she presents will be valued by historians of medicine and classicists alike.
The Frontiers of Ancient Science
The Frontiers of Ancient Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Frontiers of Ancient Science write by Brooke Holmes. This book was released on 2015-03-30. The Frontiers of Ancient Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The fields of ancient science and mathematics have in recent years witnessed remarkable growth. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most important scholars working in these fields in the United States and Europe in honor of the eminent historian of ancient science and medicine Heinrich von Staden, Professor Emeritus of Classics and History of Science at the Institute of Advanced Study and William Lampson Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at Yale University. The papers range widely from Mesopotamia to Ancient Greece and Rome, from the first millennium B.C. to the early medieval period, and from mathematics to philosophy, mechanics to medicine, representing both a wide diversity of national traditions and the cutting edge of the international scholarly community.
Medicine and Paradoxography in the Ancient World
Medicine and Paradoxography in the Ancient World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medicine and Paradoxography in the Ancient World write by George Kazantzidis. This book was released on 2019-08-05. Medicine and Paradoxography in the Ancient World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present volume offers a systematic discussion of the complex relationship between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world. For a long time, the relationship between the two has been assumed to be virtually non-existent. Paradoxography is concerned with disclosing a world full of marvels and wondrous occurrences without providing an answer as to how these phenomena can be explained. Its main aim is to astonish and leave its readers bewildered and confused. By contrast, medicine is committed to the rational explanation of human phusis, which makes it, in a number of significant ways, incompatible with thauma. This volume moves beyond the binary opposition between ‘rational’ and ‘non-rational’ modes of thinking, by focusing on instances in which the paradox is construed with direct reference to established medical sources and beliefs or, inversely, on cases in which medical discourse allows space for wonder and admiration. Its aim is to show that thauma, rather than present a barrier, functions as a concept which effectively allows for the dialogue between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world.
