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Article: van der Eijk, Philip. Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health, and Disease.(Book review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- September 1, 2006
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VAN DER EIJK, Philip. Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health, and Disease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 404 pp. Cloth, $95.00--Philip J. van der Eijk, a professor of Greek at the University of Newcastle on Tyne, has published extensively on ancient philosophy, medicine, science, and related subjects. He is the coauthor of Ancient Histories of Medicine: Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiography in Classical Antiquity.
The present work is divided into three parts. Part 1 deals with the Hippocratic Corpus and Diocles of Carystus. Part 2 focuses on Aristotle and his school; part 3 on ...