Singer, Peter N. (2020) A change in the substance: theory and its limits in Galen's 'Simples'. Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences 70 (184-5), pp. 16-53. ISSN 0003-9810.
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Abstract
Galen’s Simples is a work of enormous historical importance, which has however received little detailed analysis in modern times, from a theoretical or intellectual-historical point of view. The present paper makes a preliminary attempt at such an analysis, offering both an overview of its content and context and a focussed analysis of one particular theoretical area. There are three main aims: (A) to give a synoptic account of the most important theoretical questions raised in Simples, while also contextualizing the work within Galen’s oeuvre and within Graeco-Roman pharmacological traditions more broadly; (B) to give a detailed account of one theoretical concept in particular, that of change in or through the whole substance (καθ᾽ ὅλην τὴν οὐσίαν) – as it appears both in Simples and in other relevant texts; (C) to give a very brief account of the Nachleben of this concept in Early Modern times, which may be thought to shed further light on it, or at least to cast it in a fresh perspective.
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| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Galen, Ancient Medicine, Ancient Pharmacology, Simple Drugs |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Peter Singer |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2020 09:04 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 18:01 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/32611 |
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