Galen’s Humanistic Medicine
The Essay, Quod Optimus Medicus
edited by Aileen R. Das
Hardback (Published)
(May 2023)
ISBN: 9783161619571
9.29 x 5.98 inches
Price: $105.00
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This edition, translation, and collection of essays examines Galen’s conception of the role of philosophy in medicine; it also situates Galen’s disciplinary vision in relation to modern theorizations of the pertinence of the humanities to the medical profession.
The present volume offers an edition, updated English translation of, introduction to, and seven multi-authored contributions on Galen’s small tract That the Best Doctor is also a Philosopher. The volume seeks to put Galen’s text into conversation with recent interrogations of medicine’s self-sufficiency – or disciplinary autonomy – in the Medical Humanities. As the title of the ancient work conveys and the essays in this volume unpack, Galen argues for a reenvisioning of medicine by making philosophy constitutive of his profession on the grounds that the latter’s methods of reasoning, explanations of the natural world, and ethical directives enable the doctor to understand and treat the body in disease. In so doing, Galen expands medical knowledge at the expanse of instrumentalizing the philosophical.
- Edited by Aileen R Das
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