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Galen on the Brain Anatomical Knowledge and Physiological Speculation in the Second Century AD 1st Edition by Julius Rocca ISBN 9004125124 9789004125124

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Author(s): Julius Rocca
ISBN(s): 9789004125124, 9004125124
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.33 MB
Year: 2003
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 9004125124 
ISBN 13: 9789004125124
Author: Julius Rocca

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 Part One surveys the medical and philosophical past in which the study of the brain occured, and looks at the materials and methods which Galen employs to legitimate his hegemonic argumentation. Part Two examines Galen’s anatomical understanding of the brain, especially the ventricles. Part Three offers a critical evaluation of Galen’s physiolgy of the brain. This is the first monograph to offer a detailed account of this subject, setting it within the cultural and intellectual contexts of its era, and will be of interest to those in classics, medical history, history andphilosophy of science and the history of ideas.

Galen on the Brain Anatomical Knowledge and Physiological Speculation in the Second Century AD 1st Table of contents:

PART I: THE FRAMEWORK OF GALEN’S ANATOMICAL METHODOLOGY

Chapter 1: The Development of the Hegemonic Concept – Medical and Philosophical Background

  • Presocratic Views on the Brain

  • The Brain in the Hippocratic Corpus

  • Aristotle’s Theories of Brain and Heart

  • Hellenistic Medicine and the Hegemonikon Concept

  • Recovery of Anatomical Knowledge in the Second Century

Chapter 2: Galen’s Methods and Materials for Studying the Brain

  • Anatomical Demonstration Techniques

  • Pneumatic Physiology

  • Use of Animal Dissection

  • Empirical Foundations of His Research

PART II: THE ANATOMY OF THE BRAIN

Chapter 3: Exposing and Dissecting the Brain

  • Techniques for Opening the Skull and Examining Brain Structures

  • Tools and Procedures

Chapter 4: Anatomy of the Ventricular System

  • Detailed Description of Brain Ventricles

  • Anatomical Functions and Interconnections

PART III: A PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BRAIN

Chapter 5: Methodology of Ventricular Function

  • Theoretical and Experimental Basis

  • Modeling Ventricular Activity Through Pneumatic Theory

Chapter 6: The Elaboration of Psychic Pneuma

  • Generation of ‘Spiritual Pneuma’ in the Brain

  • Role of Ventricles in Mental Processes and Emotions

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