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CLAS 3239 | Ancient Medicine: The Classical Roots of the Medical Humanities: Audio and Video

Welcome to Ancient Medicine: The Classical Roots of the Medical Humanities, a course designed to introduce you to the main themes and ideas in the medical literature produced by the ancient Greeks and Romans.

About Audio and Video

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Podcasts

In this podcast series created by Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, provides an overview of the history of philosophy. Adamson discusses early Greek medicine up until Hippocrates, and its relation to pre-Socratic philosophers such as Empedocles.

In this podcast series created by Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, provides an overview of the history of philosophy. In this episode, Prof. Adamson discusses the sects of early Greek medicine, such as Hippocratics, Pneumatists, Dogmatists. etc. 

In this podcast series created by Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, provides an overview of the history of philosophy. Jim Hankinson, a leading expert on philosophical themes in Galen, joins Peter to discuss this greatest doctor of the ancient world.

Videos