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The Cambridge Companion to Galen (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,871
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The Cambridge Companion to Galen (Hardcover, New): R.J. Hankinson

The Cambridge Companion to Galen (Hardcover, New)

R.J. Hankinson

Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy

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Galen of Pergamum (AD 129 c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for more than fifteen hundred years. He was a prolific writer on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis and prognosis, pulse-doctrine, pharmacology, therapeutics, and the theory of medicine; but he also wrote extensively on philosophical topics, making original contributions to logic and the philosophy of science, and outlining a scientific epistemology which married a deep respect for empirical adequacy with a commitment to rigorous rational exposition and demonstration. He was also a vigorous polemicist, deeply involved in the doctrinal disputes among the medical schools of his day. This volume offers an introduction to and overview of Galen's achievement in all these fields, while seeking also to evaluate that achievement in the light of the advances made in Galen scholarship over the past thirty years."

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Release date: August 2008
First published: August 2008
Editors: R.J. Hankinson
Dimensions: 233 x 155 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 476
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-81954-1
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
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LSN: 0-521-81954-7
Barcode: 9780521819541

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