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ISBN(s): 9780199919802, 0199919801
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Year: 2014
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ISBN 10: 0199919801 
ISBN 13: 9780199919802
Author: Susan B Levin

While scholars typically view Plato’s engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B. Levin argues that from the Gorgias through the Laws, his handling of medicine unfolds in several key phases. Further, she shows that Plato views medicine as an important rival for authority on phusis (nature) and eudaimonia (flourishing). Levin’s arguments rest on careful attention both to Plato and to the Hippocratic Corpus. Levin shows that an evident but unexpressed tension involving medicine’s status emerges in the Gorgias and is explored in Plato’s critiques of medicine in the Symposium and Republic. In the Laws, however, this rivalry and tension dissolve. Levin addresses the question of why Plato’s rivalry with medicine is put to rest while those with rhetoric and poetry continue. On her account, developments in his views of human nature, with their resulting impact on his political thought, drive Plato’s striking adjustments involving medicine in the Laws. Levin’s investigation of Plato is timely: for the first time in the history of bioethics, the value of ancient philosophy is receiving notable attention. Most discussions focus on Aristotle’s concept of phronêsis (practical wisdom); here, Levin argues that Plato has much to offer bioethics as it works to address pressing concerns about the doctor-patient tie, medical professionalism, and medicine’s relationship to society.

Plato s Rivalry with Medicine A Struggle and Its Dissolution 1st Table of contents:

1. The Gorgias’ Innovative Lens on Human Existence
Introduction
Technai versus Empeiriai: The Gorgias’ Account of What Is and Is Not Worth Doing
The Gorgias’ Soul-Body Division
Goods Set Apart from the Good
Hedonism and Antithetical Ways of Life
Order as the Key to Virtue and the Good
The Gorgias on Punishment
Gorgias 517d–518a and the Dialogue’s Final Hierarchy of Human Endeavors
The Gorgias’ Preeminent Technê of Politics

2. Medicine in the Gorgias: A Collision Course with Philosophy Is Set
Introduction
Medicine’s Role as Aid and Support to the Gorgias’ Castigation of Rhetoric
Taking Stock of the Gorgias’ Parallels and Debts to Medical Writings
The Roots of What Will Become Plato’s Head-On Rivalry with Medicine
 4.1. Medicine on the Highest Good and the Big Three Epithumiai
 4.2. Pain
 4.3. Soul
 4.4. Microcosmic Hubris
Looking Ahead

3. Eryximachus’ Tale: The Symposium’s Challenge to Medicine’s Preeminence
Introduction
Eryximachus as Emcee?
Macrocosmic Occupations: The Logos of Eryximachus and Its Hippocratic Backdrop
Eryximachus’ Appropriation and Critique of Heraclitus and Anaximander
Desire, Self-Indulgence, and Self-Control: Eryximachus and Aretê
The Field of Technai: Eryximachus’ Loose Construction
Concluding Thoughts: Eryximachus’ and Our Own

4. Justice and the Good in Kallipolis: Medicine’s Ejection from the Ranks of Technai
Introduction
The Hippocratic Backdrop
 2.1. Treatments
 2.2. Conditions
 2.3. Nondisease Impairments
The Republic’s Account of Medical Practice
Philosophers, the Big Three, and the Soul-Body Tie
Infallible Philosophers and the Good
Medicine a Technê No More
The Republic’s Hierarchy of Human Endeavors and Medicine’s Distinctiveness
A Brief Look Ahead

5. Approaching the Laws by Way of the Statesman
Introduction
Human Capacity in the Statesman and Republic Compared
The Statesman on Human Endeavors
Medicine in the Statesman and Its Sociopolitical Milieu
Phusis and (In)Fallibility: The Laws and Republic Contrasted
The Touchstone of Magnesia’s Quest for Unity
Maintaining Magnesia: The Nocturnal Council as Philosopher-Rulers or Closely Akin Thereto?
 7.1. Revising the Law
 7.2. Magistrates’ Corruptibility
 7.3. The Nocturnal Council’s Fallibility as a Judge of Character
 7.4. Magnesia’s Own Cognitive Resources are Insufficient
 7.5. Cognitive Adequacy and the Council
Conclusion

6. Medicine in the Laws: A Rivalry Dissolved
Introduction
The Laws’ Opposition to Rhetoricians/Sophists and Poets
Medicine in the Laws
Magnesia’s Ordinary Citizens Front and Center
Noncitizens’ Enhanced Position in Magnesia
The Gorgias’ Uncertainty Resolved

7. Plato’s Legacy to Contemporary Bioethics
Introduction
Entrenchment in Bioethics’ Quest for Alternatives: Two Prominent Illustrations
Avoiding Scylla and Charybdis: Aristotle to the Rescue?
Bioethics and Plato Thus Far
Preconditions of True Doctor-Patient Collaboration: Grounding an Appeal to Plato
Bioethics Compared with the Laws on Human Fallibility
Parity and Paideia
Paideia and Medical School: Island or Way Station?
Paideia and (Im)moral Incentives
Transparency and Accountability: The Who and What of Knowing
Veatch and Brody on Laypeople’s Values Contributions

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