| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 300 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Galen, the unsuspected moralist -- General protreptic and suggested approaches to life -- Practical ethics in technical accounts -- Moral medicine -- Avoiding distress -- Exhortation to the study of medicine -- Affections and errors of the soul -- Recognising the best physician -- Prognosis. |
| Summary |
"Offering the first authoritative analysis of Galen's psychological and ethical works alongside a large number of technical tracts, both medical and philosophical, this book provides a new framework through which we can comprehend Galen's role as a practical ethicist - an aspect of his intellectual profile that has been little understood until now"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 28, 2023). |
| Local Note |
Cambridge University Press Cambridge Open Access Books and Elements |
| Subject |
Galen -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Galen
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Medical ethics -- Greece.
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Medicine, Greek and Roman.
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Medical ethics
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Medicine, Greek and Roman
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version : Xenophontos, Sophia A., 1985- Medicine and practical ethics in Galen Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024 9781009247801 (DLC) 2023028758 |
| ISBN |
9781009247795 electronic book |
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1009247794 electronic book |
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9781009247801 hardcover |
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9781009247788 paperback |
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