Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen
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- Author: Sophia Xenophontos, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
- Date Published: January 2024
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Galen was notable in the ancient world for his creative intermingling of medicine and practical ethics. This book is the first authoritative analysis of Galen's psychological and ethical works alongside a large number of his technical tracts, both medical and philosophical, and offers a robust framework through which we can comprehend his role as a practical ethicist - an aspect of his intellectual profile that has been little understood until now. Sophia Xenophontos explores a wide range of literature on moralia in the Roman imperial period, as well as topics including the pathology of emotions, the social role of medicine, and character formation and social ethics, to show the sophisticated and complex ways in which moral themes and controversies from antiquity were adapted and reinvigorated by Galen. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Read more- Provides the first authoritative introduction to Galen's moralising discourse, opening up a hitherto under-explored topic in the tradition of ancient ethical writing
- Enables readers better to appreciate the sophisticated and complex ways in which moral themes and controversies from antiquity were adapted and reinvigorated by Galen
- Explores topics as diverse as the pathology of emotions, character formation and social ethics, as well as the social role of medicine
- This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
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'Xenophontos' book is an exciting addition to the scholarship on Galen. Her exploration of the practical ethics of antiquity's most voluminous writer—particularly his literary, rhetorical, and argumentative strategies—offers new ways of understanding Galen as a moralist. Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen will be of profound interest both to readers of Galen and to students of imperial philosophy.' Anna Peterson, Pennsylvania State University
See more reviews'In this very welcome contribution to Galenic studies Sophia Xenophontos offers a comprehensive and engaging account of the full scope of Galen's involvement with ethical questions, not only in theory but in the lived reality of patient's cases and in the practicality of his activities as physician.' Chiara Thumiger, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
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- Date Published: January 2024
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781009247825
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Galen, the Unsuspected Moralist
Part I. Moral themes and types of moralism in Galen:
1. General Protreptic and Suggested Approaches to Life
2. Practical Ethics in Technical Accounts
3. Moral Medicine
Part II. Case Studies:
4. Avoiding Distress
5. Exhortation to the Study of Medicine
6. Affections and Errors of the Soul
7. Recognising the Best Physician
8. Prognosis
Conclusion.
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