TY - BOOK ID - 3373329 TI - Hippocrates, On the Art of Medicine PY - 2012 VL - 39 SN - 9789004224131 9789004224292 9004224297 9781280126734 1280126736 9786613530592 9004224130 PB - Leiden BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Medicine KW - Médecine KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophie KW - Hippocrates. KW - Médecine KW - Health Workforce KW - Philosophy KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3373329 AB - On the art of medicine , or de Arte , embodies as perhaps no other ancient text the full flower of the sophistic movement of the fifth century BCE. It is a rhetorical epideixis in which forensic oratory, philosophy, and medicine are woven into an ambitious display of sophistic polymathy. Unlike much previous scholarship, however, this book does not dismiss de Arte as “merely” rhetorical. Its analysis of the author’s philosophical and medical views reveals that he strove to promote a consistent and rationally grounded system capable of responding to theoretical and practical criticisms levied by those who would deny that there was such a thing as medicine or technē at all. ER -