Epidemics in Context

Description:

"The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen's Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. However, they also illustrate the rich exegetical traditions that existed in the post-classical Greek world. The present volume investigates these texts from various and diverse vantage points: textual criticism; Greek philology; knowledge transfer through translations; and medical history. Especially the Syriac and Arabic traditions of the Epidemics come under scrutiny."--

subjects: Arab Medicine,  Greek and Roman Medicine,  Hippocrates,  Medicine, greek and roman,  Medicine, arab,  Criticism and interpretation,  Disease Outbreaks,  Ancient History,  Greek World,  Arabic Medicine

People: Hippocrates