Aristotle Reads Hippocrates

✍ Scribed by Hynek Bartoš and Vojtěch Linka

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 446
• Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine, 59
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Despite Aristotle's family background and his undeniable impact on ancient Greek medicine, the influence of medicine on Aristotle's philosophy is controversial and far from universally acknowledged. The aim of this volume is to re-examine the influence of medical knowledge and literature on Aristotle's work, in particular to explore the connections with the Hippocratic writings. The volume encourages further exploration of this interdisciplinary area and offers new insights by presenting a series of case studies that examine in detail specific debates within the Aristotelian corpus in relation to the medical literature.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
‎Half-Title Page
‎Series Title Page
‎Title Page
‎Copyright Page
‎Contents
‎Acknowledgements
‎Notes on Contributors
‎Introduction (Bartoš and Linka)
‎Chapter 1. On Aristotle’s Use of His Sources for Medical Ideas and Their Features (Perilli)
‎Chapter 2. Physicians and Philosophers on Well-Balanced Mixtures (Bartoš)
‎Chapter 3. On Ancient Medicine and Aristotle on the Structure and Function of Bodily Parts (Kouloumentas and Stavrianeas)
‎Chapter 4. Art and Nature in Aristotle’s Physics: Some Antecedents in Early Greek Medicine (Coughlin)
‎Chapter 5. Aristotle and the Medical Tradition on Sleep and Food (Bubb)
‎Chapter 6. The Hippocratic Background to Aristotle’s Gynaecology (Connell)
‎Chapter 7. Aristotle’s Indebtedness to Early Greek Medical Texts on Wind-Pregnancies (Leunissen)
‎Chapter 8. The Power of the Example: When Aristotle Read the Hippocratic On the Nature of the Child … (Korobili)
‎Chapter 9. Environmental Causation in Aristotle and in Airs, Waters, Places (Popa)
‎Chapter 10. On the Character of Citizens: Aristotle’s Politics 7.7 and Airs, Waters, Places (Thein)
‎Chapter 11. The Enigmatic Presence of Medicine and Physiology in Aristotle’s Ethical Writings (Morel)
‎Chapter 12. The Medical Background and Inductive Basis of Aristotle’s Doctrine of the Mean (Johnson)
‎Chapter 13. Medicine and the Emotions: The Problemata in Dialogue with the Hippocratic Writings (Thumiger)
‎Index locorum
‎Index rerum
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