The Oxford Handbook of Galen

The Oxford Handbook of Galen provides a comprehensive overview of the life, work, and legacy of Galen (129--c. 216 CE), arguably the most important medical figure of the Graeco-Roman world. It contains essays by thirty leading experts on Galen’s life and background, his medical theories, his therapeutic and clinical practices, and his philosophical contributions in the areas of logic, epistemology, causation, scientific method, and ethics.

The authors offer accessible, but thorough and detailed, analyses of all major areas of Galen’s thought, considered in their original historical context, as well as of the most important pathways of the transmission of his texts and his intellectual legacy, from late antiquity to early modern times and from western Europe to Tibet and China.

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.