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Philosophical themes in Galen / edited by Peter Adamson, Rotraud Hansberger & James Wilberding.
- Title
- Philosophical themes in Galen / edited by Peter Adamson, Rotraud Hansberger & James Wilberding.
- Publication
- London : Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2014.
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- Description
- v, 327 pages; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies supplement ; 114
- Uniform Title
- Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement 114.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Galen and the philosophers: philosophical engagement, shadowy contemporaries, Aristotelian transformations / P.N. Singer -- Genre and Galen's philosophical discourses / Todd Curtis -- Galen on what is persuasive (pithanon) and what approximates to truth / Riccardo Chiaradonna -- Galen on the nature of human beings / Philip van der Eijk -- Galen on mental illness: a physiological approach to phrenitis / Glenda McDonald -- Galen's theory of elements / Inna Kupreeva -- Galen on void / Peter Adamson -- Galen's refutation of atomism / David Leith -- On Galen's theory of vision / Katerina Ierodiakonou -- The secret of sentient vegetative life in Galen / James Wilberding -- What does pseudo-Galen tell us that Galen does not? Ancient medical schools in the Roman Empire / Caroline Petit -- Index of subjects and persons -- Index locorum.
- ISBN
- 9781905670505 (pbk.)
- 1905670508 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 884865747
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library