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Hippocrates, On the Art of Medicine

English · Hardback

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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 techn at all.

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Authors Joel Mann, Joel E. Mann
Assisted by Joel E. Mann (Editor)
Publisher Brill
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 23.10.2014
 
EAN 9789004224131
ISBN 978-90-0-422413-1
No. of pages 280
Weight 632 g
Series Studies in Ancient Medicine
Brill
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

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