Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen
Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen - Brill 2019 - 1 online resource - Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 17 .
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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the field, it shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticised across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe to North Africa, the Middle and the Far East. The volume offers both introductory material and new analysis on the transmission and dissemination of Galen's works and ideas through translations into Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages, the impact of Galenic thought on medical practice, as well as his influence in non-medical contexts, including philosophy and alchemy.
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9789004032211 9789004394353
Medicine and Nursing
Galen; medical practice; philosophy; alchemy
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen - Brill 2019 - 1 online resource - Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 17 .
Free-to-read
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the field, it shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticised across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe to North Africa, the Middle and the Far East. The volume offers both introductory material and new analysis on the transmission and dissemination of Galen's works and ideas through translations into Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages, the impact of Galenic thought on medical practice, as well as his influence in non-medical contexts, including philosophy and alchemy.
All rights reserved
English
9789004032211 9789004394353
Medicine and Nursing
Galen; medical practice; philosophy; alchemy