Hippocrates and Medical Education

Manfred (H.F.J.) Horstmanshoff is Professor of the History of Ancient Medicine at Leiden University. In 2000-2001 and in 2008-2009 he was Fellow-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsBibliographical noteAbbreviationsList of ContributorsHippocrates as Galen’s TeacherJacques JouannaI. DOCTORS AND LAYMENTextual Therapy. On the relationship between medicine and grammar in GalenIneke SluiterPhysician. A Metapaedogogical TextLesley Dean-JonesTraining Showmanship. Rhetoric in Greek medical education of the fifth and fourth centuries BCPankaj K. AgarwallaThe Importance of Having Medical Knowledge as a Layman. The Hippocratic treatise Affections in the context of the Hippocratic CorpusPilar Pérez CañizaresEducating the Public, Defending the Art: Language use and medical education in Hippocrates’ The ArtAdriaan RademakerII. TEACHERS AND PUPILSResearch Program and Teaching Led by the Master in Hippocrates’ Epidemics 2, 4 and 6Robert AlessiThe Physician as Teacher. Epistemic function, cognitive function and the incommensurability of errorsRoberto Lo Presti‘Choose your master well’. Medical training, testimonies and claims to authorityNatacha MassarDoctors’ Literacy and Papyri of Medical ContentAnn Ellis HansonThe Curriculum of Studies in the Roman Empire and the Cultural Role of PhysiciansGabriele MarascoIII. TEACHING OF SURGERY AND OBSTETRICSThe Teaching of SurgeryElizabeth CraikTeaching Surgery in Late Byzantine AlexandriaJohn ScarboroughThe Educated Midwife in the Roman Empire. An example of differential equationsChristian LaesTeaching the Hippocratic Gynaecological Recipes?Laurence M.V. TotelinAnalogical Method, Experiment and Didacticism in the Hippocratic Treatises Generation / Nature of the Child / Diseases 4Daniela FaustiIV. GALEN AND THE HIPPOCRATIC TRADITIONGalen, Satire and the Compulsion to InstructRalph M. RosenHippocrates in the pseudo-Galenic Introduction: Or how was medicine taught in Roman times?Caroline PetitSome Remarks by Galen about the Teaching and Studying of MedicineJuan Antonio López FérezThe Didactic Letters Prefacing Marcellus’ On Drugs as Evidence for the Expertise and Reputation of Doctors in the Late Roman EmpireLouise CilliersMedical Education in Late Antiquity. From Alexandria to MontpellierPeter E. Pormann‘Because my son does not read Latin’. Rhetoric, competition and education in Middle Dutch surgical handbooksKarine van ’t LandAndrés Piquer and the Neo-Hippocratic Teaching of Medicine in Eighteenth Century SpainJesús Angel y EspinósTradition as the Genealogy of Truth. Hippocrates and Boerhaave between assimilation, variation and deviationRoberto Lo PrestiList of abbreviations and titles of the Hippocratic Corpus and GalenIndex locorumIndex generalis

This book is an excellent source of information, from surveys of medical training and education programs, to specific analysis of certain treatises. While most helpful to a scholar of ancient medicine, the later chapters dealing with Hippocratic reception may find a wider audience in scholars of the history of medicine in general. The bibliography is extensive and in all relevant languages.Nicole Wilson, University of Calgary in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.07.28