The Oxford Handbook of Galen

P. N. Singer is a Research Fellow at the Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin, and an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. His publications include several volumes in the Cambridge Galen Translations series, Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina (co-edited with Chiara Thumiger), and Time for the Ancients: Measurement, Theory, Experience. Ralph M. Rosen is Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Ancient Concepts of the Hippocratic (co-edited with Lesley Dean-Jones), Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire, several volumes in the Penn-Leiden series on Ancient Values (co-edited with Ineke Sluiter) and numerous other writings on Greek literature, ancient medicine, and intellectual history.

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Chronology

PART 1: Medical and Intellectual Contexts
1. Introduction
P.N. Singer
2. Galen: Life and Works
Véronique Boudon-Millot
3. Philosophy, Science, and Psychology: Galen's Theory of "Soul" in its Intellectual Context
P. N. Singer
4. Galen, Rhetoric, and the Second Sophistic
Caroline Petit
5. Galen's Hippocratism
Sean Coughlin
6. Galen and Hellenistic Medicine
David Leith
7. Galen on Women: Gynecology and Female Patients
Rebecca Flemming
8. Galen's Pharmacology in Context
Julie Laskaris
9. Galenus Chirurgus: Galen as Surgeon
Lawrence J. Bliquez

PART 2: Topics and Works
10. Galen on Logic and Scientific Method
Matyás Havrda
11. Anatomy and Physiology
Luis Alejandro Salas
12. Physical and Causal Concepts
R. J. Hankinson
13. Pharmacology: Texts, Theories, and Practices
P. N. Singer, Matteo Martelli, and Lucia Raggetti
14. Pathology
Julien Devinant
15. Galen's Clinical Practice
Susan Mattern
16. Galen on Food, Diet, and the Healthy Life
John Wilkins
17. Galen on the Pulse: Theory and Method
Orly Lewis
18. Galen on Signs of Disease
Piero Tassinari
19. Ethical Works
Ralph M. Rosen

PART 3: Galen's Legacy
20. Galen in Late Imperial and Early Byzantine Periods
Christine Salazar
21. Galenism in Later Byzantium
Antoine Pietrobelli
22. Translation into Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew
Peter Pormann
23. Galen Beyond Baghdad
A. R. Das
24. Galen's Return to the West
Stefania Fortuna
25. Galen in Renaissance and Early Modern Debates
Hiro Hirai
26. Galenic Anatomy in the Long Renaissance
Vivian Nutton
27. Galen's Legacy in Jewish and Muslim Medical Traditions in Europe
Carmen Caballero Navas
28. Galenic Medicine in South Asia
Fabrizio Speziale
29. Galen in Premodern Tibet and China: Impressions and Footprints
Dror Weil and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim

Appendix: List of Galen's Works
Index