Galen and Galenism

by Garcfa-Ballester,Luis

• ISBN13: 9780860788461
• ISBN10: 0860788466
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

Galenism, a rational, coherent medical system embracing all health and disease related matters, was the dominant medical doctrine in the Latin West during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Deriving from the medical and philosophical views of Galen (129-c.210/6) as well as from his clinical practice, Latin Galenism had its origins in 12th-century Salerno and was constructed from the cultural exchanges between the Arabic and Christian worlds. It flourished all over Europe, following the patterns of expansion of the university system during the subsequent centuries and was a major factor in shaping the healing systems of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities - the subject of a previous volume by Professor García-Ballester. The present collection deals with a wide array of issues regarding the historical Galen and late medieval and Renaissance Galenism, but focuses in particular on the relationship between theory and practice. It includes first English versions of two major studies originally published in Spanish.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xii
GALEN
Galen's Medical Works in the Context of his Biography	1	(1635)
Philip Banks
Salud Andres Aparicio
L. Garcia Ballester
Galen as a Clinician: His Methods in Diagnosis	1636
Soul and Body, Disease of the Soul and Disease of the Body in Galen's Medical Thought	117
On the Origin of the `Six Non-natural Things' in Galen	105
Jutta Kollesch
Diethard Nickel
GALENISM
The New Galen: A Challenge to Latin Galenism in Thirteenth-Century Montpellier	55	(72)
Jutta Kollesch
Klaus--Dietrich Fischer
Diethard Nickel
Paul Potter
Artifex factivus sanitatis: Health and Medical Care in Medieval Latin Galenism	127
Don Bates
The Construction of a New Form of Learning and Practicing Medicine in Medieval Latin Europe	75	(242)
La recepcion del Colliget de Averroes en Montpellier (c. 1285) y su influencia en las polemicas sobre la naturaleza de la fiebre	317
Prof. Dario Cabanelas Rodriguez
La fiebre y la doctrina de las cualidades y los grados, segun Arnau	110
L. Garcia Ballester
E. Sanchez Salor
Galenism and Medical Teaching at the University of Salamancain the Fifteenth Century	1	(182)
Philip Banks
The Circulation and Use of Medical Manuscripts in Arabic in Sixteenth-Century Spain	183
Publications	1	(1)
Professor Luis Garcia-Ballester
Index	1