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xiv, 404 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-378) and indexes |
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1. The 'theology' of the Hippocratic treatise On the sacred disease -- 2. Diocles and the Hippocratic writings on the method of dietetics and the limits of causal explanation -- 3. To help, or to do no harm : principles and practices of therapeutics in the Hippocratic corpus and in the work of Diocles of Carystus -- 4. The heart, the brain, the blood and the pneuma : Hippocrates, Diocles and Aristotle on the location of cognitive processes -- 5. Aristotle on melancholy -- 6. Theoretical and empirical elements in Aristotle's treatment of sleep, dreams and divination in sleep -- 7. The matter of mind : Aristotle on the biology of 'psychic' processes and the bodily aspects of thinking |
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Medicine, Greek and Roman
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Medicine, Ancient
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Medicine -- Philosophy
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Soul
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Nature
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History, Ancient
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Greek World
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Roman World
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Philosophy, Medical
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Nature
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