The lost theory of Asclepiades of Bithynia

著者

• Vallance, J. T.

書誌事項

The lost theory of Asclepiades of Bithynia

J.T. Vallance

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-157) and indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

An ancient doctor who advocated the therapeutic benefits of wine and passive exercise was bound to be successful. However, Asclepiades of Bithynia did far more than reform much of traditional Hippocratic therapeutic practice; he devised an extraordinary physical theory which he used to explain all biological phenomena in uniformly simple terms. His work laid the theoretical basis for the anti-theoretical medical sect called Methodism. For his trouble he was despised by his intellectual progeny and, more importantly perhaps, by Galen. None of his work survives intact, but copious ancient testimonia relating to him allow us to reconstruct many details of the theory. His ideas offer us a fascinating glimpse of how Hellenistic philosophy and medicine interacted, and provide an introduction to one of the most intriguing doctrinal disputes in Greek science.

目次

• Introduction
• What were the anarmoi onkoi
• Void?
• The onkoi in action
• Before and after
• Asclepiades
• Bibliography
• Index.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA11687908
• ISBN:
  • 0198242484
• LCCN: 90033667
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Oxford [England],New York
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 162 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : R126.A72
  • DC20 : 610/.938
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Asclepiades, of Bithynia, ca. 130-ca. 40 B. C
  • LCSH : Medicine, Greek and Roman
  • LCSH : Medicine -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Philosophy, Ancient