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Medicine --- Greek and Roman

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"In fifth-century BCE Greece Hippocrates put forward his clinical observations in a collection of texts known as the Hippocratic Corpus. The jewels of the Corpus were seven books known as Epidemics. In The Invention of Medicine, acclaimed historian Robin Lane Fox sheds new light on these texts and upends our understanding of two thousand years of medical history by establishing that the Epidemics was written much earlier than previously thought. It's long been thought that Hippocrates's work was informed by drama, poetry, philosophy, and other arts; but Hippocrates's writing predates this, and Lane Fox inverts our ideas about such influence and the relationship between the arts and the sciences, showing that medicine is the lynchpin between these two categories of Western knowledge"--

Medicine, Greek and Roman --- Medicine --- History. --- Hippocrates

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In Unani Medicine in the Making, Kira Schmidt Stiedenroth examines the contemporary institutions and practices of Graeco-Islamic healing in India. Drawing on interviews with practitioners, clinical observations, and Urdu sources, the book focuses on Unani's multiplicity, scrutinizing apparent tensions between the understanding of Unani as a system of medicine and its multiple enactments as Islamic medicine, medical science, or alternative medicine. Ethnographic details provide vivid descriptions of the current practices of Unani in India and invite readers to rethink the idea that humoral medicine is incommensurable with modern science. Ultimately, the book also discusses the relationship of Unani with Muslim communities, examining the growing practice of Prophetic Medicine in Urban India and the increasing representation of Unani as Islamic Medicine.

Medicine --- Medicine, Arab --- Medicine, Greek and Roman.

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The reception of Greco-Egyptian iatromagic in Byzantine medical practice literature is a culturo-historical phenomenon with multiple meanings. The rational interpretation of unconventional therapeutic concepts stands at the threshold of a transformation thanks to new considerations concerning medical ethics and patient-focused care.

Byzantium. --- History of Medicine. --- Medicine, Greek and Roman. --- Medicine, Medieval.

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In On Temperaments, Galen of Pergamum sets out his concept of the combination of the four elemental qualities (hot, cold, wet, and dry), which is fundamental to his account of the structure and function of human, animal, and plant bodies. Two related works explore disturbances in this combination and their consequences.

Medicine, Greek and Roman. --- Physiology. --- Galen. --- De temperamentis (Galen)