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Hippocrates, on the Art of Medicine

Hippocrates, on the Art of Medicine

Paperback

Medical ReferenceAncient History GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004224130
ISBN13: 9789004224131
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 2 2012
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
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.

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