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The Fragments of the Methodists is a new attempt to give a first corpus of its kind. Manuela Tecusan has collected, edited, and translated all the surviving testimonials concerning one of the most influential 'schools' or doctrines of medicine in late antiquity: Methodism.
This volume contains the fragments accompanied by a textual apparatus and facing English translation. The introduction provides a guide to the collection. The second volume presents a commentary to all fragments and two glossaries of medical and pharmacological terms. Apart from its intrinsic novelty, this material affords fresh insights into broad topics of contemporary concern, such as the relation between philosophy and medicine, problems of biomedical ethics, the epistemological foundations of the sciences, the role of causal explanation - explored here in their fascinating historical set-up. Many of the long texts included in the Methodist collection become now available in a translation for the first time.
This volume contains the fragments accompanied by a textual apparatus and facing English translation. The introduction provides a guide to the collection. The second volume presents a commentary to all fragments and two glossaries of medical and pharmacological terms. Apart from its intrinsic novelty, this material affords fresh insights into broad topics of contemporary concern, such as the relation between philosophy and medicine, problems of biomedical ethics, the epistemological foundations of the sciences, the role of causal explanation - explored here in their fascinating historical set-up. Many of the long texts included in the Methodist collection become now available in a translation for the first time.
Price: $288.00
Pages: 822
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine
Publication Date:
19 December 2003
ISBN: 9789004124516
Format: Hardcover
"…great value of Tecusan's work … this collection and translation of their fragments will certainly be the foundation on which all future research on this topic will be based … should be on the bookshelf of anybody with an interest in Greek medicine." – Peter E. Pormann, in: Bull. Hist.Med., 2005
"Once again Brill’s series on Ancient Medicine offers us a valuable new work … The benefits of such a work are very clear: there was no Methodist collection before and Tecusan’s will undoubtedly be the standard edition of the remaining evidence of Methodism for a long time to come. It will be the basis of any future research in this field, as a wide variety of scholars, classicists, philosophers and medical historians, now have at their disposal the necessary materials. Anyone interested in ancient medicine in general will eagerly await the next two volumes." – Pilar Pérez Cañizares, in: BMCR, 2005
"Once again Brill’s series on Ancient Medicine offers us a valuable new work … The benefits of such a work are very clear: there was no Methodist collection before and Tecusan’s will undoubtedly be the standard edition of the remaining evidence of Methodism for a long time to come. It will be the basis of any future research in this field, as a wide variety of scholars, classicists, philosophers and medical historians, now have at their disposal the necessary materials. Anyone interested in ancient medicine in general will eagerly await the next two volumes." – Pilar Pérez Cañizares, in: BMCR, 2005
Manuela Tecusan born in Romania, studied Classics and Ancient Philosophy at the Universities of Bucharest (Mphil, 1980) and Oxford (Dphil, 1992). She came to Cambridge as a Research Fellow at Selwyn College, then became a Wellcome Research Fellow in the History of Medicine at the Faculty of Classics. Her dissertation, Symposion and Philosophy won the Connington Prize in 1998.