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Salas, Luis Alejandro, Cutting Words - Polemical Dimensions of Galen's Anatomical Experiments, Leiden, Brill (Studies in Ancient Medicine, 55), 2020, 328 pp.
- Resum
- In Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen's Anatomical Experiments, Luis Alejandro Salas offers a new account of Galen's medical experiments in the context of the high intellectual culture of second-century Rome. The book explores how Galen's written experiments operate alongside their live counterparts. It argues that Galen's experimental writing reperforms the licensing functions of his live demonstrations, acting as a surrogate for their performance and in some cases an improvement upon it. Cutting Words focuses on the philosophical targets and theoretical stakes of four case studies: Galen's experiments on voice production, the bladder, the heart, and the femoral artery. It ends over a millennium later with Vesalius, who adapted his Greek predecessor's writing in his own anatomical work, framing himself as a new Galen and so securing Galen's legacy of writing.
Conté:
Introduction
1 Experiment and Experimental Writing
1 A World of Text
2 Demonstration: Instruction and Display
3 The Physical Spaces of Public and Private Medical Performances
4 Public and Private Demonstrations in Writing
5 Antiquarianism and Galen's Doxographical Polemics
2 Galen and Agonistic Anatomical Demonstration
1 Credentialing and the Medical Marketplace
2 Rome and the Centrality of Public Display
3 Anatomical Procedures
4 Agonism and Invasive Anatomical Display
5 Prepared Extemporaneity
6 The Intercostal Nerves
7 Galen's Experiments on the Ureters and Ureterovesical Valves
8 The Implicit Contest with Alexander
3 Magnification and the Elephant
1 Magnification and Analogy
2 Analogy, Classification, and the Ancient Anatomical Tradition
3 Elephants
4 Aristotle, Teleology, and the Elephant's Trunk
5 Teleology, Humoralism, and the Elephant's Gallbladder
6 Analogy and Teleology
7 Aristotle and Surrogate Targets
4 Fighting with the Heart of a Beast: Galen's Use of the Elephant's Cardiac Anatomy against Cardiocentrists
1 The Os Cordis
2 The Agōn over the Heart
3 Galen's Engagement with Aristotle
4 Galen's Teleology and Cardiac Structure
5 It Is Difficult Not to Write Anatomy: Galen on Erasistratus and the Arteries
1 Maryllus the Mime-Writer and the Value of Anatomical Experience
2 Claims of Knowledge and Refutations of Ignorance
3 Compulsion of the Truth and the Anatomy of Deception
4 A Polemic in Four Parts
6 Galen and the Experiment on the Femoral Artery
1 The Femoral Artery Experiment
2 Capacities and Their Explanatory Powers
3 Galen on the Simultaneous Movement of the Arteries
4 Arterial Breathing and Pulmonary Respiration
5 The Movement of the Blood
6 Irrigation of the Body
7 The Motile Properties of Blood and Pneuma
8 The Femoral Artery Experiment in Its Galenic Context
7 Drawing Blood: Galen's Use of the Arterial Experiment against Erasistratus
1 Praxagoras and Some Rough Beginnings
2 Pneuma
3 Herophilus and an Emerging Tradition
4 The Simultaneous Action of Arterial and Cardiac Movement
5 Transpiration and the Arteries' Attraction of Material from All Around
6 Erasistratus and Mechanism
7 Erasistratus and Void
8 Erasistratus, the Bird, and the Bear
9 Erasistratus and the Femoral Artery Experiment
8 De Galeni corporis fabrica: Writing Galen and the Greek Past in Vesalius' Fabrica
1 Books and Book Production
2 Vesalius' Appropriation of Galen's Polemical Strategies
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
- Matèries
- Galè
Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
- URL
- https://brill.com/view/title/58864?contents=toc-44457
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