The Cambridge Companion to Galen Hardback
Edited by R. J. (University of Texas, Austin) Hankinson
Part of the Cambridge Companions to Philosophy series
Hardback
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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.
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- Pages:476 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:14/08/2008
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- ISBN:9780521819541
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:476 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:14/08/2008
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- ISBN:9780521819541
