Galen

In this work of outstanding scholarship, Singer has compiled in one volume his translated versions of Galen’s medical, philosophical, and autobiographical writings, originally written in Greek. Singer collates these writings of Galen with a very useful, erudite introduction and explanatory notes throughout the text. Particularly useful for the reader is the index of brief descriptions of people mentioned in the text. The bibliography will be useful to researchers in the field, and its index is comprehensive. Singer is to be congratulated on this magisterial scholarly volume about one of the most important medical figures of the last millennium. * Arpan K. Banerjee, Hektoen International *

P. N. Singer is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. His publications include several volumes in the Cambridge Galen Translations series; Time for the Ancients: Measurement, Theory, Experience; Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: from Celsus to Paul of Aegina (co-edited with Chiara Thumiger) and The Oxford Handbook of Galen (co-edited with Ralph Rosen).