I. Bibliographical aids | II. Ancient sources | III. General surveys |
IV. Collections of essays | V. The Hippocratic Corpus | VI. Galen |
VII. Other medical authors | VIII. Noteworthy special studies |
K.-D. Fischer. "Ancient Veterinary Medicine. A Survey of Greek and Latin Sources and Some Recent Scholarship." Medizinhistorisches Journal 23(1988), 191-209.
H. Leitner. Bibliography to the Ancient Medical Authors. Vienna, 1973.
"Leitner" and the "Supplements" are indispensable guides in the wilderness.
G. Maloney, R. Savoie. Cinq cent ans de bibliographie hippocratique (1473-1982). Quebec, 1982.
S. Byl, "Les dix dernières années (1983-1992) de la recherche hippocratique," Lettre d'Information Centre Jean-Palerne 22(1993), 1-39.
Gesnerus
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Isis
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Sudhoff's Archive
Literature and Medicine
Isis produces a periodic "Critical Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences."
The National Library of Medicine in
Bethesda, Maryland, publishes an annual Bibliography of the History of
Medicine.
II. Ancient Sources
The Budé series continues to add volumes to its Hippocrates, most recently De l'ancienne médecine, ed. J. Jouanna (1990). The Loeb Hippocrates now (1997) has 8 volumes, and more may be added.
E. J. and Ludwig Edelstein, Asclepius: Collection and Interpretation of the Testimonies, Introduction (1998) by Gary B. Ferngren. Baltimore, 2 vols., 1945 repr. in 1 vol. 1998.
Erasistrati Fragmenta, ed. I Garofalo. Pisa, 1988.
D. Furley and J. Wilkie. Galen On Respiration and the Arteries. Princeton, 1984.
R. J. Hankinson, Galen: On the Therapeutic Method I and II. Oxford, 1991.
A. Z. Iskandar. Galen: On Examinations by Which the Best Physicians are Recognized. CMG, Suppl. Orient. IV. Berlin, 1988.
H. von Staden. Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria. Cambridge, 1989.
W. Smith. Hippocrates: Pseudepigraphic Writings. Leiden, 1990.
J. André. Etre médecin à Rome. Paris, 1987.
Hellmut Flashar, ed. Antike Medizin. Darmstadt, 1971.
M. D. Grmek. Diseases in the Ancient Greek World. Baltimore, 1988 (= Les Maladies à l'aube de la civilisation occidentale, Paris, 1983).
M.D.Grmek. Storia del pensiero medico occidentale. Vol. I:Antechità e medioevo. Roma-Bari, 1993
M.D. Grmek. Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Cambridge, Mass. 1999.
R. Jackson. Doctors and Disease in the Roman Empire. London, 1988.
E. D. Phillips. Greek Medicine: Philosophy and Medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians. London, 1973 (= Aspects of Greek Medicine, New York, 1973).
J. Longrigg. Greek Rational Medicine: Philosophy and Medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians. London, 1993.
J. Scarborough. "Medicine," 1227-1248 in Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome, edd. M. Grant and R. Kitzinger. New York, 1988.
______, Roman Medicine. Ithaca, 1969 repr. 1976.
H. E. Sigerist. A History of Medicine. 2 vols. New York, 1951 repr. Oxford, 1987.
B. Vitrac. Médicine et philosophie au temps d'Hippocrate. Vincennes, 1989.
R. J. Hankinson, ed. Method, Medicine, and Metaphysics. Special issue of Apeiron 22(1988).
W. Haase, ed. Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (ANRW), II.37.1: Wissenschaften (Medizin und Biologie). Berlin and New York, 1993.
V. Nutton. From Democedes to Harvey: Studies in the History of Medicine. London, 1988.
______, ed. Galen: Problems and Prospects. London, 1981.
P. Potter, G. Maloney, J. Desautels, edd. La Maladie et les maladies dans la collection hippocratique: Actes du Ve colloque international hippocratique. Québec, 1990.
Ph. J. van der Eijk, H.F.J. Horstmanshoff, P. H. Schrijvers, edd. Ancient Medicine in its Socio-Cultural Context. Amsterdam and Atlanta, 1995 = Clio Medica 27 and 28.
Renate Wittern, Pierre Pellegrin, edd. Hippokratische Medizin und antike Philosophie. VIII. Int. Hippokrateskolloquium. Hildesheim, 1996.
Émile Littre, ed. Oeuvres Complètes d'Hippocrate. 10 vols. Paris, 1844 repr. Amsterdam, 1962.
P. Potter. Short Handbook of Hippocratic Medicine. Québec, 1988.
V. Langholf. Medical Theories in Hippocrates, Early Texts and the Epidemics. New York, 1990.
K.-G. Kühn, ed. Galeni Opera Omnia. 20 vols. Leipzig, 1821-33 repr. Hildesheim, 1964-65.
G. Bowersock, "Galen," 59-75 in Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire. Oxford, 1969.
R. J. Durling, A Dictionary of Medical Terms in Galen. Leiden, 1993.
P. Moraux. Galien de Pergame. Souvenirs d'un Médecin. Paris, 1985.
G. Sarton. Galen of Pergamum. Lawrence, Kansas, 1954.
J. Scarborough, "Galen Redivivus: An Essay Review," JHMAS 43(1988), 313-321.
______, "The Galenic Question," Sudhoffs Archiv 65(1981), 1-31.
J. T. Vallance. The Lost Theory of Asclepiades of Bithynia. Oxford, 1990.
H. von Staden, "Jaeger's 'Skandalon der historischen Vernunft': Diocles, Aristotle, and Theophrastus," in Werner Jaeger Reconsidered: Proceedings of the Second Oldfather Conference, ed. William M. Calder III (=Illinois Classical Studies, Supplement 3, Atlanta, 1992), 227-265.
VIII. Noteworthy Special Studies
L. A. Dean-Jones, Women's Bodies in Classical Greek Science. Oxford, 1994.
R. Flemming, Medicine and the Making of Roman Women: Gender, Nature, and Authority from Celsus to Galen. Oxford, 2000.
H. Grensemann, Knidische Medizin Teil II: Versuch einer weiteren Analyse der schicht A in den pseudohippodratischen Schriften De natura muliebri und De muliebribus I und II. Stuttgart, 1987.
C. Harris, The Heart and the Vascular System in Ancient Greek Medicine. Oxford, 1973.
G. Majno. The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World. Cambridge, Mass., 1975.
Müri, Walter. Der Arzt im Altertum. Munich/Zurich 1986.
J. Scarborough, "The Myth of Lead Poisoning among the Romans: An Essay Review," JHMAS 39(1984), 469-475.
W. Smith, "Notes on Ancient Medical Historiography," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 63(1989), 73-109.
______, The Hippocratic Tradition. Ithaca, 1979
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