The double face of Janus and other essays in the history of the medicine / Owsei Temkin.
Pubblicazione:
Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins university press, c2006.
Descrizione fisica:
X, 543 p. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Pt. 1. Introduction: 1. The double face of Janus. Pt. 2. The historical approach to medicine: 2. The meaning of medicine in historical perspective 3. Medicine and the problem of moral responsibility 4. An essay on the usefulness of medical history for medicine 5. On the interrelationship of the history and the philosophy of medicine 6. The historiography of ideas in medicine 7. Comparative study in the history of medicine. Pt. 3. Medicine: ancient and medievl: 8. Greek medicine as science and craft 9. On Galen's pneumatology 10. A galenic model for quantitative physiological reasoning? 11. History of Hippocratism in late antiquity: the third century and the Latin West 12. Studies on late Alexandrian medicine I. Alexandrian commentaries on Galen's De sectis ad introducendos 13. The Byzantine origin of the names for the basilic and cephalic veins 14. Byzantine medicine: tradition and empiricism. Pt. 4. Medicine: renaissance to twentieh century: 15. The Elusiveness of paracelsus 16. Zimmermann's philosophy of the physician 17. Wunderlich, Schelling and the history of medicine 18. The European background of the young Dr. Welch 19. The era of Paul Ehrlich. Pt. 5. Basic medical sciences and biology: 20. Metaphor of human biology 21. Was Servetus influenced by Ibn an-Nafis? 22. Vesalius on an immanent biological motor force 23. The calssical roots of Glisson's doctrine of irritation 24. The philosophical background of Magendie's physiology 25. Materialism in French and germany physiology of the earlu nineteenth century 26. Basic science, medicine and the Romantic era (The Fielding H. Garrison lecture) 27. German concepts of ontogeny and history around (1800) 28. The idea of descent in Post-Romantic German biology (1848-1858). Pt. 6. Health and disease: 29. Health and disease 30. The scientific approach to disease: specific entity and individual sickness 31. An historical analysis of the concept of infection 32. On the history of morality and syphilis. Pt. 7. Surgery and drug therapy: 33. The role of surgery in the rise of modern medical thought 34. Merrem's youthful dream: the early history of experimental pylorectomy 35. A postscript to Merrem's youthful dream 36. Fernel, Joubert and erastus on the specificity of cathartic drugs 37. Therapeutic trends and the treatment of syphilis before 1900. Index
