Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen - Selected Papers

This volume makes available in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on Greek and Roman medicine, ranging from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity.

About the author

Jacques Jouanna is Member of the Institut de France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres) and Professor Emeritus of Greek at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, where he taught from 1981 and where he founded and directed the CNRS Research Group 'Médecine grecque'. His publications include Hippocrate. Pour une archéologie de l'école de Cnide (1975, re-issued 2009), Hippocrate (1992, Engl. tr. 1999), Sophocle (2007) and numerous critical editions of Hippocratic and Galenic medical texts.

Product details

• Authors: Jacques Jouanna
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2012
• EAN: 9789004208599
• ISBN: 978-90-04-20859-9
• No. of pages: 424
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General