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HIPPOCRATES IN CONTEXT
STUDIES IN ANCIENT MEDICINE EDITED BY
JOHN SCARBOROUGH PHILIP J. VAN DER EIJK ANN HANSON NANCY SIRAISI
VOLUME 31
HIPPOCRATES IN CONTEXT Papers read at the XIth International Hippocrates Colloquium University of Newcastle upon Tyne 27–31 August 2002
EDITED BY
PHILIP J. VAN DER EIJK
BRILL LEIDEN • BOSTON 2005
Cover illustration: Late fifteenth-century portrait of Hippocrates sitting, reading. Behind him, two standing philosophers dispute (Wellcome Library, London).
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CONTENTS
Preface ........................................................................................ Acknowledgements ...................................................................... Abbreviations ..............................................................................
ix xiii xv
1. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE Cause and crisis in historians and medical writers of the classical period .................................................................. Jacques Jouanna
3
Hippocratic explanations ............................................................ Jane Barton
29
On Ancient Medicine and its intellectual context ........................ Francis Dunn
49
On Ancient Medicine on the nature of human beings ................ Mark J. Schiefsky
69
Art, science and conjecture, from Hippocrates to Plato and Aristotle ............................................................................ Véronique Boudon-Millot
87
Modelli espositivi relativi alla prognosi nel Corpus Hippocraticum (Prorrhetico 2, Malattie 1–3, Affezioni, Affezioni Interne, Prognosi di Cos) ................................................ 101 Daniela Fausti
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contents 2. THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE
The social and intellectual context of Regimen II .................... 121 John Wilkins The Hippocratic impact on healing cults: the archaeological evidence in Attica .................................................................. 135 Maria Elena Gorrini The cities of the Hippocratic doctors ...................................... 157 Hui-hua Chang Error, loss, and change in the generation of therapies .......... 173 Julie Laskaris The Hippocratic Treatise Peri Opsios, ‘De videndi acie, On the Organ of Sight’ .............................................................. 191 Elizabeth M. Craik Coan promotions and the authorship of the Presbeutikos .............. 209 Eric D. Nelson
3. ‘HIPPOCRATIC’ AND ‘NON-HIPPOCRATIC’ MEDICINE Air, pneuma and breathing from Homer to Hippocrates ...... 239 Antoine Thivel Microcosm and macrocosm: the dual direction of analogy in Hippocratic thought and the meteorological tradition .................................................................................. 251 Frédéric Le Blay About philosophy and humoural medicine .............................. 271 Paul Demont
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