Author: GALENUS, CLAUDIUS [or: GALEN OF PERGANUM]. Rocca, Julius.
Title: Galen on the brain. Anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the Second Century AD.
Description: Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2003. XVI,313 pp. 7 b./w. figs on plts. Orig. hardcover (boards). (Studies in Ancient Medicine 26).Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (September 129 - c. 216 CE), often Anglicized as Galen (or Galen of Pergamon, was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. Considered to be one of the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen influenced the development of various scientific disciplines, including anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology, as well as philosophy and logic.- - This book is a study of the ways in which Galen sought to establish the brain as the regent part (hegemonikon) of the body, utilising a rigorous anatomical epistemology and an often sophisticated (but perforce limited) set of physiological arguments. - - Publisher's official price. = € 157,00

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