Presentation of Field "History of Science" xi Jean-Claude DUPONT Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Ancient World: An Introduction xiii Lorenzo PERILLI Chapter 1. Egyptian Medicine 1 Paola COSMACINI and Christian ORSENIGO 1.1. Medical thought and the Weltanschauung of the Egyptian man 1 1.2. The observed body 2 1.3. Healers 6 1.
4. Written sources 8 1.5. Diseases: a general assessment 14 1.6. The field of trauma 21 1.7. Healing remedies 23 1.
8. References 27 Chapter 2. A Retrospective History of Babylonian Medicine 39 Markham J. GELLER 2.1. Syriac Book of Medicine (3rd century CE) 39 2.2. The Babylonian Talmud 42 2.
3. Theory in Greek medicine 43 2.4. Theory in Akkadian medicine 44 2.5. Anatomy 47 2.6. Diagnostic 48 2.
7. References 51 Chapter 3. Medicine and Healing in Early China 53 Dolly YANG 3.1. Introduction 53 3.2. Medicine during the late Warring States, Qin and Han dynasties 54 3.3.
Notions of microcosm-macrocosm 56 3.4. Formation of canonical texts 57 3.5. Classical theory 61 3.6. Diagnosis 69 3.7.
Therapy 71 3.8. Pharmacopoeia 73 3.9. Conclusion 74 3.10. References 76 Chapter 4. India''s Early Medical History: Buddhism and the Beginnings of Ayurveda 81 Kenneth G.
ZYSK 4.1. Introduction 81 4.2. Four phases of Indian medicine 82 4.3. Vedic medicine 83 4.4.
Ayurveda 83 4.5. Historic transition 85 4.6. Buddhism''s contributions to Early Indian medicine 86 4.7. The Buddha''s case histories 88 4.8.
Medicine in Later Buddhism 92 4.9. Buddhist medical texts 93 4.10. Discussion and conclusions 94 4.11. Summary 96 4.12.
Appendix 97 4.13. Sources and recommended reading 98 Chapter 5. Greek Medicine: A Brief Historical Outline 99 Lorenzo PERILLI 5.1. Historical outline 99 5.2. A survey on the medical literature of antiquity 115 5.
3. References 124 Chapter 6. Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome: Social Structures and Institutions 127 Vivian NUTTON 6.1. Pre-classical Greece 127 6.2. Greek medicine and the Ancient Near East 129 6.3.
Classical Greece 129 6.4. Literacy and a wider interest in medicine 132 6.5. Religion and medicine 133 6.6. Human healers 136 6.7.
The Hellenistic world 139 6.8. Medicine moves West 144 6.9. Medicine in the Roman world 148 6.10. Doctors in the Roman Empire 153 6.11.
Military medicine 155 6.12. The career of Galen 157 6.13. Medicine in the Late Antiquity 159 6.14. Conclusion 165 6.15.
References 167 Chapter 7. Greek Medicine: Semiotics, Physiology, Nosology 169 Amneris ROSELLI 7.1. Texts and tradition 169 7.2. The living body 170 7.3. Nosology and symptoms 174 7.
4. Humors 178 7.5. Pneuma 181 7.6. Permanence and innovation in Hellenistic and imperial medicine 183 7.7. References 185 Chapter 8.
Anatomy and Knowledge of the Human Body: Nerves, Brain, Heart 187 Vito LORUSSO 8.1. Introduction: palpation, dissection and observation 187 8.2. The early days of anatomy 189 8.3. Anatomy in the Hippocratic Corpus 191 8.4.
Anatomy according to Aristotle 194 8.5. Anatomy according to Diocles of Carystus and Praxagoras of Cos 199 8.6. Anatomy according to the Alexandrians: Herophilus and Erasistratus 200 8.7. Anatomy in the early imperial era 201 8.8.
Anatomy according to Galen 202 8.9. Galen''s other works 206 8.10. Anatomical illustration in manuscripts 207 8.11. References 208 Chapter 9. Greek Medicine: Therapeutics 213 Laurence TOTELIN 9.
1. Introduction 213 9.2. Dietetics 216 9.3. Pharmacology 217 9.4. Surgery 221 9.
5. References 223 Chapter 10. Zoology in the Ancient Greek World and Its Reception in the Islamic and Latin Worlds 225 Tommaso ALPINA and Andrea FALCON 10.1. Zoology before Plato and Aristotle 225 10.2. Plato 228 10.3.
Aristotle 230 10.4. The transition from the Late Ancient to the Arabic reception of Aristotle''s zoology 233 10.5. Medicine and zoology in Avicenna: tradition and innovation 234 10.6. The Latin tradition to Dante 237 10.7.
References 239 Chapter 11. Botany in Greece 241 Luciana REPICI 11.1. In the beginning, Aristotle and Theophrastus 241 11.2. In the distant past and the near future 245 11.3. In Rome 250 11.
4. The missing link 253 11.5. References 258 Chapter 12. The Arab World 261 Fabian KÄS 12.1. Sources 262 12.2.
Physicians 264 12.3. Alternative conceptions 266 12.4. Historical development 267 12.5. Disciplines and literary genres 271 12.6.
Conclusion 275 12.7. References 275 List of Authors 279 Index of Names 281 Index of Terms 287 Summary of Volume 2 295 Summary of Volume 3 301.