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The Art Is Long - On the Sacred Disease and the Scientific Tradition

English · Hardback

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This volume examines the fifth-century medical treatise, "On the Sacred Disease, as a sophistic speech, and considers its position within the scientific tradition. The first part concerns conceptions of science, magic, and medicine; and establishes the antiquity of medicine as a specialized skill. The latter part analyzes the treatise in light of sophistic oratory, and explores its reception of traditional beliefs. This analysis shows that traditional beliefs, competition, and rhetoric contributed to the intellectual tradition of science. Traditional views are shown to have influenced ideas concerning physiology, and disease aetiology and transmission, Competition, expressed in the terms of sophistic debate, sharpened the author's arguments. "On the Sacred Disease is important evidence for the influence on fifth-century medicine of both sophistic rhetoric and of older medical traditions.

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Julie Laskaris is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Richmond. She has published on ancient medicine in the 1996 and 1999 proceedings of the Colloque International Hippocratique.

Product details

Authors Julie Laskaris
Publisher Brill
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 23.05.2002
 
EAN 9789004121522
ISBN 978-90-04-12152-2
No. of pages 174
Dimensions 166 mm x 245 mm x 17 mm
Weight 467 g
Series Studies in Ancient Medicine
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

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