Galen and the World of Knowledge

By: Christopher Gill (Editor), Tim Whitmarsh (Editor), John Wilkins (Editor)

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Hardcover | 10 December 2009

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Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD. This volume of essays locates him firmly in the intellectual life of his period, and thus aims to make better sense of the medical and philosophical 'world of knowledge' that he tries to create. How did Galen present himself as a reader and an author in comparison with other intellectuals of his day? Above all, how did he fashion himself as a medical practitioner, and how does that self-fashioning relate to the performance culture of second-century Rome? Did he see medicine as taking over some of the traditional roles of philosophy? These and other questions are freshly addressed by leading international experts on Galen and the intellectual life of the period, in a stimulating collection that combines learning with accessibility.

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'[This] will no doubt become an indispensable item in the bibliography of those working on second-century literature, medicine, philosophy and, more generally, culture.' The British Journal for the History of Science

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Introduction Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh and John Wilkins
Galen's library
Conventions of prefatory self-presentation in Galen's On the Order of My Own Books
Demiurge and emperor in Galen's world of knowledge
Shock and awe: the performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations
Galen's un-Hippocratic case-histories
Staging the past, staging oneself: Galen on Hellenistic exegetical traditions
Galen and Hippocratic medicine: language and practice
Galen's Bios and Methodos: from ways of life to paths of knowledge V(c)ronique
Does Galen have a medical programme for intellectuals and the faculties of the intellect?
Galen on the limitations of knowledge
Galen and Middle Platonism
'Aristotle! What a thing for you to say!' Galen's engagement with Aristotle and Aristotelians
Galen and the Stoics, or: the art of not naming
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