The Cambridge Companion to Galen

R. J. Hankinson (University of Texas, Austin)

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Cambridge University Press
12 January 2009

History of ideas; History of medicine; Mathematics & Sciences

Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy

Galen of Pergamum (AD 129–c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for more than fifteen hundred years. He was a prolific writer on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis and prognosis, pulse-doctrine, pharmacology, therapeutics, and the theory of medicine; but he also wrote extensively on philosophical topics, making original contributions to logic and the philosophy of science, and outlining a scientific epistemology which married a deep respect for empirical adequacy with a commitment to rigorous rational exposition and demonstration. He was also a vigorous polemicist, deeply involved in the doctrinal disputes among the medical schools of his day. This volume offers an introduction to and overview of Galen's achievement in all these fields, while seeking also to evaluate that achievement in the light of the advances made in Galen scholarship over the past thirty years.

Edited by: R. J. Hankinson (University of Texas Austin)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 750g
ISBN: 9780521525589
ISBN 10: 0521525586
Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Pages: 472
Publication Date: 12 January 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. The man and his work R. J. Hankinson; 2. Galen and his contemporaries G. E. R. Lloyd; 3. Methodology Teun Tieleman; 4. Logic Ben Morison; 5. Language Ben Morison; 6. Epistemology R. J. Hankinson; 7. Psychology Pierluigi Donini; 8. Philosophy of Nature R. J. Hankinson; 9. Anatomy Julius Rocca; 10. Physiology Armelle Debru; 11. Therapeutics Philip van der Eijk; 12. Pharmacology Sabine Vogt; 13. Commentary Rebecca Flemming; 14. The fortunes of Galen Vivian Nutton.

R. J. Hankinson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is editor of Galen: On Antecedent Causes (1998, 2004) in the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries series.