Ancient Histories of Medicine: Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiography in Classical Antiquity

Leiden / Boston / Koln: Brill, 1999. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket (one small edge chip). The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Sharp corners. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. 4 or 5 pages only have a sentence or two underlined. All other pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Printed on acid-free paper. Volume 20 in the Studies in Ancient Medicine series, edited by John Scarborough. Bound in the original gilt-stamped red cloth. From the dust jacket: "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 attention is given to medical doxography, i.e. the description of the characteristic doctrines of the great medical authorities of the past. The volume examines the various attitudes to the history of medicine adopted by a wide range of ancient writers (e.g. Aristotle, Galen, Celsus, Herophilus, Soranus, Oribasius, Caelius Aurelianus). It discusses the historical sense of ancient medicine, the variety of versions of the medical past that were created and the wide range of purposes and strategies which medico-historical writing served. It also deals with the question of the sources, the role of historiographical traditions and the variety of literary genres of ancient medico-historical writing.". First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. viii, 540pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.