P. N. Singer is a Research Fellow at the Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin, and an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. His publications include several volumes in the Cambridge Galen Translations series, Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina (co-edited with Chiara Thumiger), and Time for the Ancients: Measurement, Theory, Experience.
Ralph M. Rosen is Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Ancient Concepts of the Hippocratic (co-edited with Lesley Dean-Jones), Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire, several volumes in the Penn-Leiden series on Ancient Values (co-edited with Ineke Sluiter) and numerous other writings on Greek literature, ancient medicine, and intellectual history.

• Acknowledgments


• List of Contributors


• Chronology


• PART 1: Medical and Intellectual Contexts


• 1. Introduction


• P.N. Singer


• 2. Galen: Life and Works


• Véronique Boudon-Millot


• 3. Philosophy, Science, and Psychology: Galen's Theory of "Soul" in its Intellectual Context


• P. N. Singer


• 4. Galen, Rhetoric, and the Second Sophistic


• Caroline Petit


• 5. Galen's Hippocratism


• Sean Coughlin


• 6. Galen and Hellenistic Medicine


• David Leith


• 7. Galen on Women: Gynecology and Female Patients


• Rebecca Flemming


• 8. Galen's Pharmacology in Context


• Julie Laskaris


• 9. Galenus Chirurgus: Galen as Surgeon


• Lawrence J. Bliquez


• PART 2: Topics and Works


• 10. Galen on Logic and Scientific Method


• Matyás Havrda


• 11. Anatomy and Physiology


• Luis Alejandro Salas


• 12. Physical and Causal Concepts


• R. J. Hankinson


• 13. Pharmacology: Texts, Theories, and Practices


• P. N. Singer, Matteo Martelli, and Lucia Raggetti


• 14. Pathology


• Julien Devinant


• 15. Galen's Clinical Practice


• Susan Mattern


• 16. Galen on Food, Diet, and the Healthy Life


• John Wilkins


• 17. Galen on the Pulse: Theory and Method


• Orly Lewis


• 18. Galen on Signs of Disease


• Piero Tassinari


• 19. Ethical Works


• Ralph M. Rosen


• PART 3: Galen's Legacy


• 20. Galen in Late Imperial and Early Byzantine Periods


• Christine Salazar


• 21. Galenism in Later Byzantium


• Antoine Pietrobelli


• 22. Translation into Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew


• Peter Pormann


• 23. Galen Beyond Baghdad


• A. R. Das


• 24. Galen's Return to the West


• Stefania Fortuna


• 25. Galen in Renaissance and Early Modern Debates


• Hiro Hirai


• 26. Galenic Anatomy in the Long Renaissance


• Vivian Nutton


• 27. Galen's Legacy in Jewish and Muslim Medical Traditions in Europe


• Carmen Caballero Navas


• 28. Galenic Medicine in South Asia


• Fabrizio Speziale


• 29. Galen in Premodern Tibet and China: Impressions and Footprints


• Dror Weil and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim


• Appendix: List of Galen's Works


• Index

The Oxford Handbook of Galen provides a comprehensive overview of the life, work, and legacy of Galen (129--c. 216 CE), arguably the most important medical figure of the Graeco-Roman world. It contains essays by thirty leading experts on Galen's life and background, his medical theories, his therapeutic and clinical practices, and his philosophical contributions in the areas of logic, epistemology, causation, scientific method, and ethics. The authors also discuss the most important pathways of the transmission of his texts and his intellectual legacy, from late antiquity to early modern times and from western Europe to Tibet and China.