The Cambridge Companion to Galen

The most influential doctor of later antiquity, Galen wrote extensively on logic and the philosophy of science.

R. J. Hankinson (Edited by)

9780521819541, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 August 2008

476 pages
23.3 x 15.5 x 3.1 cm, 0.86 kg

'This volume is among the most important, not to say useful, volumes that Cambridge University Press has produced. Galen is a myrtle.' Medical History

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.

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.

Subject Areas: History of science [PDX], History of medicine [MBX], History of Western philosophy [HPC], Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]