Science, Folklore and Ideology : Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece

by: Lloyd, G.E.R.

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Science, folklore, and ideology : studies in the life sciences in ancient Greece
Author:G. E. R. Lloyd

Contents:
pt. I. The development of zoological taxonomy. Social behaviour of animals in Aristotle's zoology. Man as model. Dualisers
pt. II. The female sex: medical treatment and biological theories in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. The treatment of women in the Hippocratic Corpus. Alternative theories of the female seed. Aristotle on the difference between the sexes. The post-Aristotelian debate and conclusions
pt. III. Developments in pharmacology, anatomy and gynaecology. Theophrastus, the Hippocratics and the root-cutters. Pliny, learning and research. The development of Greek anatomical terminology. The critique of traditional ideas in Soranus's gynaecology. The epistemological theory and practice of Soranus's Methodism
Conclusion: Science, folklore and ideology

xi, 260 pages ; 22 cm

Science, Folklore and Ideology : Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece

by: Lloyd, G.E.R.

• ISBN-13: 9781853996030 / 978-1-85399-603-0
• ISBN-03: 1853996033 / 1-85399-603-3
• Bristol Classical Press, London, 1983

Price: 35,00 EURO

1 copy in stock