Book ID: CBB488433180

Neurological Concepts in Ancient Greek Medicine (2016)

unapi

Walshe, Thomas M. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 224 pages
Language: English

Neurological history claims its earliest origins in the 17th century with Thomas Willis's publication of Anatomy of the Brain, coming fully into fruition as a field in the late 1850s as medical technology and advancements allowed for in depth study of the brain. However, many of the foundations in neurology can find the seed of their beginning to a time much earlier than that, to ancient Greece in fact. Neurological Concepts in Ancient Greek Medicine is a collection of essays exploring neurological ideas between the Archaic and Hellenistic eras. These essays also provide historic, intellectual, and cultural context to ancient Greek medical practice and emphasizing the interest in the brain of the early physicians. This book describes source material that is over 2,500 years old and reveals the observational skills of ancient physicians. It provides complete translations of two historic Hippocratic texts: On the Sacred Diseases and On the Wounds of the Head. The book also discusses the Hippocratic Oath and the modern applications of its meaning. Dr. Walshe connects this ancient history, usually buried in medical histories, and shows the ancient Greek notions that are the precursors of our understanding of the brain and nervous system.

...More
Reviewed By

Review Julius Rocca (2017) Review of "Neurological Concepts in Ancient Greek Medicine". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 125-126). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB488433180/

Similar Citations

Article Amneris Roselli; (2020)
The Hippocratic treatise On the Physician: form and content (/isis/citation/CBB860301836/)

Chapter Carvallo, Sarah; (2006)
Histoire du tonus: ruptures ou continuité? (/isis/citation/CBB001024260/)

Article Silvia Iorio; Valentina Gazzaniga; Silvia Marinozzi; (2018)
Healing Bodies: The Ancient Origins of Massages and Roman Practices (/isis/citation/CBB653572272/)

Article Vivian Nutton; (2020)
The Epidemics: organising information on communal diseases (/isis/citation/CBB221976383/)

Article Taro Mimura; (2016)
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq and the text of the Hippocratic Aphorisms (/isis/citation/CBB358909690/)

Article Tommaso Raiola; (2022)
Medicus in fabula. Il medico all'opera nella favola antica (/isis/citation/CBB726065131/)

Article Jacques Jouanna; (2017)
Hippocrate et la Polémique (/isis/citation/CBB765483263/)

Book Tommaso Raiola; (2018)
Sabini medici eiusque discipulorum fragmenta (/isis/citation/CBB143301999/)

Article Piergiorgio Parroni; Eleonora Parroni; (2012)
Celso, 2, 2-6 e Ippocrate: semeiotica di ieri e medicina di oggi (/isis/citation/CBB439357004/)

Article Florence Bourbon; (2017)
Predicting and Choosing Baby's Gender in the Hippocratic Corpus (/isis/citation/CBB033484613/)

Article Robin Lane Fox; Andrew Meadows; (2020)
Dates and measures: history and some Hippocratic texts (/isis/citation/CBB845868682/)

Article Lorenzo Perilli; (2020)
Hippocrates’ competitors: the healing heroes and the Thracian Rider (/isis/citation/CBB490379725/)

Article Vito Lorusso; (2016)
Due anecdota galenici nel Parisinus suppl. gr. 634 e appunti sul Parisinus gr. 1849 (/isis/citation/CBB778638404/)

Article Laurence Totelin; (2020)
Do no harm: Phanostrate’s midwifery practice (/isis/citation/CBB601333866/)

Article Anna Maria Ieraci Bio; (2016)
La medicina nei Discorsi sacri di Elio Aristide (/isis/citation/CBB268734623/)

Article Pilar Pérez Cañizares; (2020)
The aphoristic sentences in the Hippocratic treatise On Affections (/isis/citation/CBB524307655/)

Authors & Contributors
Raiola, Tommaso
Jouanna, Jacques
Lorusso, Vito
Parroni, Eleonora
Lopez, Francesco
Piergiorgio Parroni
Concepts
Hippocratic medicine
Medicine
Linguistics; philology
Ecdotics; source study (methodology)
Greek language
Therapeutics
Time Periods
Ancient
20th century
19th century
18th century
Places
Italy
Greece
Egypt
Rome (Italy)
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment