The Cambridge Companion to Galen

by Edited by R. J. Hankinson

• ISBN13: 9780521525589
• ISBN10: 0521525586
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781139816892
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-12
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

The man and his work

Galen and his contemporaries

Methodology

Logic

Language

Epistemology

Psychology

Philosophy of Nature

Anatomy

Physiology Armelle Debru

Therapeutics

Pharmacology

Commentary

The fortunes of Galen

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