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"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"--
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.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024