Galen and the rhetoric of healing

The stories in context

Society and culture. Galen's life ; Diseases and death in Rome ; Galen and Greek culture ; Galen's corpus ; Galen's audience : "friends and companions" ; Professionalism and social status

Narrative and medicine. Hippocratic case histories ; Case histories after the Hippocratic corpus ; Inscriptions and the Cult of Asclepius ; Written tradition and clinical experience ; Case histories in Galen's work ; Memory and autobiography

Place and time

Context and authenticity

Place. City ; Country ; Houses

Time. Chronology ; Medical time ; Time and narrative structure

The contest : rivals, specators, and judges

Agon

Rivals. Other physicians ; Confrontation ; Demonstrating superiority

Audience. Witness and judge ; The addressee ; Friends ; Rivals and patients ; Family and household ; Husbands, fathers, and masters

Failure

Case history and healing narrative

The patient

Presenting the patient. Names and terms ; Temperament and constitution ; Age ; Sex : female patients ; Social information ; Conclusion

The patient as character. The patient's perspective ; The patient's lifestyle ; Character and emotion ; Conclusion

Physician and patient

The physician's perspective : "I" and "we"

Physician and patient. Intimacy ; Obedience ; Perceiving the patient

Fever

Conclusion

Appendix A. Works cited from Galen's corpus

Appendix B. Table of cases.

The stories in context

Society and culture. Galen's life ; Diseases and death in Rome ; Galen and Greek culture ; Galen's corpus ; Galen's audience : "friends and companions" ; Professionalism and social status

Narrative and medicine. Hippocratic case histories ; Case histories after the Hippocratic corpus ; Inscriptions and the Cult of Asclepius ; Written tradition and clinical experience ; Case histories in Galen's work ; Memory and autobiography

Place and time

Context and authenticity

Place. City ; Country ; Houses

Time. Chronology ; Medical time ; Time and narrative structure

The contest : rivals, specators, and judges

Agon

Rivals. Other physicians ; Confrontation ; Demonstrating superiority

Audience. Witness and judge ; The addressee ; Friends ; Rivals and patients ; Family and household ; Husbands, fathers, and masters

Failure

Case history and healing narrative

The patient

Presenting the patient. Names and terms ; Temperament and constitution ; Age ; Sex : female patients ; Social information ; Conclusion

The patient as character. The patient's perspective ; The patient's lifestyle ; Character and emotion ; Conclusion

Physician and patient

The physician's perspective : "I" and "we"

Physician and patient. Intimacy ; Obedience ; Perceiving the patient

Fever

Conclusion

Appendix A. Works cited from Galen's corpus

Appendix B. Table of cases.