Main description: The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen's Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. However, they also illustrate the rich exegetical traditions that existed in the post-classical Greek world. The present volume investigates …
"Mit der Veröffentlichung der Kleinen Schriften von Jutta Kollesch soll deren langjährige Tätigkeit als Leiterin des Corpus Medicorum Graecorum/Latinorum an der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin gewürdigt werden. Die Sammlung enthält Publikationen zur antiken Medizin von ihr…
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's 'Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud' through a detailed expl…
