Article ID: CBB001552536

The Purpose of Galen's Treatise On Demonstration (2015)

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This paper concerns the lost treatise On Demonstration (DD) written by Galen of Pergamum (129 -- ca. 215 AD). Its aim is to reconstruct the purpose of this treatise, especially the question of how, in Galen's view, it was supposed to be useful for doctors. While showing that the methods described in DD were designed to settle disagreements among doctors, the paper argues that the choice of topics discussed there was partly determined by Galen's worry about a mode of reasoning, exemplified by scepticism, that leads people into believing that plain phenomena, such as those on which both medical practice and theory are based, do not exist.

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Authors & Contributors
Nutton, Vivian
Mattern, Susan P.
Marian Surdacki
Iorio, Silvia
Le Blay, Frédéric
Metzger, N
Concepts
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Hippocratic medicine
Medical education and teaching
Medicine and society
Therapeutics
Time Periods
Ancient
Early modern
17th century
16th century
14th century
13th century
Places
Rome (Italy)
Greece
Italy
Germany
France
Institutions
Università di Padova
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