Aristotle reads Hippocrates

Hynek Bartoš, Charles University, is an associate professor at that university. He has published monographs, translations and numerous articles on ancient philosophy and medicine, including Philosophy and Dietetics in the Hippocratic On Regimen (Brill 2015). Vojtěch Linka, Charles University, is an assistant professor at that university. He wrote a PhD thesis on Approaches to Pain in Classical Philosophy and Medicine (2023) and continues his research in the philosophy of medicine. Contributors are: Hynek Bartoš, Vojtěch Linka, Lorenzo Perilli, Stavros Kouloumentas, Stasinos Stavrianeas, Sean Coughlin, Claire Bubb, Sophia Connell, Mariska Leunissen, Giouli Korobili, Tiberiu Popa, Karel Thein, Pierre-Marie Morel, Monte Ransome Johnson, Chiara Thumiger.

Acknowledgements



Introduction

 Hynek Bartoš and Vojtěch Linka



1 On Aristotle’s Use of His Sources for Medical Ideas and Their Features

 Lorenzo Perilli



2 Physicians and Philosophers on Well-Balanced Mixtures

 Hynek Bartoš



3 On Ancient Medicine and Aristotle on the Structure and Function of Bodily Parts

 Stavros Kouloumentas and Stasinos Stavrianeas



4 Art and Nature in Aristotle’s Physics: Some Antecedents in Early Greek Medicine

 Sean Coughlin



5 Aristotle and the Medical Tradition on Sleep and Food

 Claire Bubb



6 The Hippocratic Background to Aristotle’s Gynaecology

 Sophia Connell



7 Aristotle’s Indebtedness to Early Greek Medical Texts on Wind-Pregnancies

 Mariska Leunissen



8 The Power of the Example: When Aristotle Read the Hippocratic On the Nature of the Child…

 Giouli Korobili



9 Environmental Causation in Aristotle and in Airs, Waters, Places

 Tiberiu Popa



10 On the Character of Citizens: Aristotle Politics 7.7 and Airs, Waters, Places

 Karel Thein



11 The Enigmatic Presence of Medicine and Physiology in Aristotle’s Ethical Writings

 Pierre-Marie Morel



12 The Medical Background and Inductive Basis of Aristotle’s Doctrine of the Mean

 Monte Ransome Johnson



13 Medicine and the Emotions: The Problemata in Dialogue with the Hippocratic Writings

 Chiara Thumiger



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