Complementary development of natural philosophy and medicine in Ancient Greece (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle)

N.P. Shok
Article is devoted to an actual issue of history of medicine – to the analysis of complementary development of natural philosophy and medicine in Ancient Greece on the example of the analysis of the natural philosophical views of great scientists of that period – Socrates, Plato, Aristotle.

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The unity of philosophical theory and medical practice in Galen’s views

Balalykin, D.A., A.P. Shcheglov and N.P. Shok
The paper analyzes the famous work «Quod optimus medicus sit idem philosophus» («On that the best physician is also a philosopher»). The authors translated the original text to let using it by Russian-language scientists within the complex study of medicine of 1st–2nd centuries C.E. in the context of the history of natural science.

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Медицина периода эллинизма, историческое значение работ К. Галена

D.A. Balalykin, N.P. Shok
Article is devoted to actual issue of history of medicine – criticism of a domestic historiography of scientific heritage of Galen. In article is in detail considered the unique role of Alexandria school and its largest representatives in development of medicine of the Hellenic period.

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Нistory of medicine as subject of scientific research

D.A. Balalykin, N.P. Shok
Article is devoted to topical issue of modern history of science – to studying of circumstances of origin, formation and development of medical science (as private area of the general history of science) and practical knowledge (as “doctoring arts”) in a context of modern theoretic and methodological approaches of the general history and the philosophy of science.

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The ratio of the spiritual and physical in Galen’s understanding of health and disease. Part III. (The example of the work «On the passions and errors of the soul»)

Dmitrii A. Balalykin, Nataliay P. Shok, Andrei P. Scheglov
The article is devoted to the analysis of important historical and scientific problem – the development of rational medicine, and contribution to this development its most outstanding representative of Galen.

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