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Unlocking the secrets of Galen’s unified, ever-changing human body.
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Galen on Human Physiology
taking the body apart and putting it back together again
$345.42
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294 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2025
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Summary
Galen’s Body: Exploring the Unity of Human Physiology
Galen of Pergamum, the “prince of medicine,” holds a vital place in medical history and significantly impacted ancient philosophy, the history of ideas, and cultural history. In this book, Aistė Čelkytė delves into Galenic physiology, examining how this influential figure conceptualized the unity of the complex, dynamic human body.
Čelkytė approaches this question by:
- First, studying how Galen divides the bo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009435819 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009435817 |
| Author: | Aistė Čelkytė |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 294 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
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About The Author
Aistė Čelkytė
Aistė Čelkytė is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) at Leiden University and a researcher at Vilnius University. She is the author of The Stoic Theory of Beauty (2020).
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