Galen on Human Physiology - Taking the Body Apart and Putting It Back Together Again

"Galen of Pergamum, 'the prince of medicine', plays a significant role in the history of medicine, philosophy, and cultural history. This book presents a study of his physiology, looking both at Galen's solutions to a number of puzzles concerning human bodily functions, and at his theorisation of human nature"-- Provided by publisher.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Galen on parts: taking the body apart; 2. Nutrition, growth, and vegetative capacities; 3. Respiration and transpiration: the cardiac system and pneumatology; 4. Perception and voluntary motion: the nervous systems; 5. Tripartition: putting the body back together; Conclusions; References; General index; Index locorum.

About the author

Aistė Čelkytė is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) at Leiden University and a researcher at Vilnius University. She is the author of The Stoic Theory of Beauty (2020).

Product details

• Authors: Aiste (Universiteit Leiden) Celkyte, Aistė Čelkytė
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781009435819
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0943581-9
• No. of pages: 294
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHYSIOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Philosophy of Science, History of Medicine, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500