Greek Medicine From Hippocrates | To Galen: Selec...

Accessible via OAPEN Library and the Internet Archive . Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen - Selected Papers

Explores how Greek medicine intersected with broader culture, including politics, rhetoric, drama , and religion . Notable chapters discuss the relationship between Hippocratic medicine and Greek tragedy , specifically focusing on concepts like madness and "disease as aggression". Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen: Selec...

Focuses on foundational theories within the Hippocratic Corpus, such as dietetics , theories of health and disease, and psychosomatic interaction . It examines specific treatises like Airs, Waters, Places to discuss environmental impacts on health. Accessible via OAPEN Library and the Internet Archive

The book is divided into three primary parts that explore the evolution of medical thought in the Greco-Roman world: such as dietetics