"Revises customary views about the relationship between "medicine," "cosmology," and "philosophy" in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE through a fresh analysis of the works of the cosmological doctors, such as On Breaths, On Flesh, and On Regimen"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. Three second-hand reports; 2. On the nature of the human being; 3. On breaths; 4. The cosmological impulse; 5. On flesh; 6. On regimen; Conclusion; Bibliography.