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Neoclassical Medicine: Transformations in the Hippocratic Medical Tradition from Galen to the Articella (2013)

Harvard University
Ragab, Ahmed
Schiefsky, Mark
Park, Katharine
Ragab, Ahmed
Schiefsky, Mark
Publication date: 2013
Language: English

ISBN: 9781303503283

Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Advisor: Park, Katharine; Committee Members: Ragab, Ahmed, Schiefsky, Mark.
Physical Details: 253 pp.

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My dissertation contends that teachers/practitioners of medicine in second century Rome and fourteenth century northern Italy have invoked Hippocrates and his alleged works, the Hippocratic corpus, to create a sense of relative stability in the form and focus of medicine, while at the same time transforming medical thought significantly. Galen of Pergamum in second century Rome, and northern Italian physicians of the fourteenth century working on a master collection of medical texts known as the Articella, recast and artificially established the figure of Hippocrates following their specific concerns and political interests. Hippocrates became the author of whatever works they decided as legitimately Hippocratic, claiming their process of selection was a refinement of the Hippocratic tradition. The result was an entirely different Hippocrates and Hippocratic Corpus, disguised as a continuous tradition from the time of classical Greece up to their present. These two periods represent unexplored moments of radical alteration of the Hippocratic tradition, commonly perceived by historians of medicine as unchanged from the time of Hippocrates to the nineteenth century. Galen of Pergamum was the first editor of the Hippocratic Corpus from the perspective of medicine, and made a series of controversial selection of Hippocratic texts claiming they encompassed the whole knowledge of medicine and the main ideas of the mayor philosophical schools of his time, reflected in the theory of the four humors. His interpretations were highly contested during his time and in fact opposed other views on Hippocratic medicine. The early thirteenth century inherited scholastic models inspired on Galen's Hippocratism, and learned medical men of the time choose to elaborate a new version of Hippocratism focused on practical medicine and embodied in a new version of the collection known as the Articella, a canon of Hippocratic and Galenic works for the practice and teaching of medicine. Moving away from the previous organization of Hippocratic texts, learned medical men in northern Italy placed different Hippocratic treatises at the center of a new Hippocratic canon, foregrounding a variety of works relating to medical and surgical practice. In the process, they set Galen aside, moving away from his theoretical frame.

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Description Cited in Dissertation Abstracts International-A 75/02(E), Aug 2014. Proquest Document ID: 1465367867.

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