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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