Description
The Oxford Handbook of Galen provides a comprehensive overview of the life, work, and legacy of Galen (129--c. 216 CE), arguably the most important medical figure of the Graeco-Roman world. It contains essays by thirty leading experts on Galen's life and background, his medical theories, his therapeutic and clinical practices, and his philosophical contributions in the areas of logic, epistemology, causation, scientific method, and ethics. The authors offer accessible, but thorough and detailed, analyses of all major areas of Galen's thought, considered in their original historical context, as well as of the most important pathways of the transmission of his texts and his intellectual legacy, from late antiquity to early modern times and from western Europe to Tibet and China.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsChronologyPART 1: Medical and Intellectual Contexts 1. Introduction P.N. Singer 2. Galen: Life and Works V?ronique Boudon-Millot3. Philosophy, Science, and Psychology: Galen's Theory of "Soul" in its Intellectual Context P. N. Singer 4. Galen, Rhetoric, and the Second Sophistic Caroline Petit5. Galen's Hippocratism Sean Coughlin 6. Galen and Hellenistic Medicine David Leith7. Galen on Women: Gynecology and Female Patients Rebecca Flemming 8. Galen's Pharmacology in Context Julie Laskaris 9. Galenus Chirurgus: Galen as Surgeon Lawrence J. Bliquez PART 2: Topics and Works 10. Galen on Logic and Scientific Method Maty?s Havrda 11. Anatomy and Physiology Luis Alejandro Salas 12. Physical and Causal Concepts R. J. Hankinson 13. Pharmacology: Texts, Theories, and Practices P. N. Singer, Matteo Martelli, and Lucia Raggetti 14. Pathology Julien Devinant 15. Galen's Clinical Practice Susan Mattern 16. Galen on Food, Diet, and the Healthy Life John Wilkins 17. Galen on the Pulse: Theory and Method Orly Lewis 18. Galen on Signs of Disease Piero Tassinari 19. Ethical Works Ralph M. Rosen PART 3: Galen's Legacy 20. Galen in Late Imperial and Early Byzantine PeriodsChristine Salazar 21. Galenism in Later Byzantium Antoine Pietrobelli 22. Translation into Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew Peter Pormann 23. Galen Beyond Baghdad A. R. Das 24. Galen's Return to the West Stefania Fortuna 25. Galen in Renaissance and Early Modern Debates Hiro Hirai 26. Galenic Anatomy in the Long Renaissance Vivian Nutton 27. Galen's Legacy in Jewish and Muslim Medical Traditions in Europe Carmen Caballero Navas 28. Galenic Medicine in South Asia Fabrizio Speziale 29. Galen in Premodern Tibet and China: Impressions and Footprints Dror Weil and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Appendix: List of Galen's Works Index
