This work brings together Philip van der Eijk's previously published essays on the close connections that existed between medicine and philosophy throughout ant

This work brings together Philip van der Eijk's previously published essays on the close connections that existed between medicine and philosophy throughout ant

This collection of essays focuses on the ways in which Greek and Latin authors viewed and wrote about the history of medicine in the ancient world. Special atte

The Hippocratic treatise On Ancient Medicine, a key text in the history of early Greek thought, mounts a highly coherent attack on the attempt to base medical p

This 2005 book is a critical examination of Michel Foucault's relation to ancient Greek thought, in particular his famous analysis of Greek history of sexuality