Medicine and practical ethics in Galen /

"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 hi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Xenophontos, Sophia A., 1985- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Subjects:	Galen > Criticism and interpretation. Galen Medical ethics > Greece. Medicine, Greek and Roman. Médecine grecque et romaine. Éthique médicale > Grèce. Medical ethics Medicine, Greek and Roman Greece Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.