Michael Boylan is Professor of Philosophy at Marymount University. He has published on biomedicine and the history and philosophy of science from the ancient Western world to contemporary biology and medicine. He is the author of several books on the history and philosophy of science, including: Method and Practice in Aristotle’s Biology, Genetic Engineering, and The Origins of Ancient Greek Science: Blood—A Philosophical Study. Boylan was the lead author of The Academy of Orthopedic Surgery Ethics Handbook in the United States (1998-2001)
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A Philosophical History of Western Medicine
Michael Boylan
Introduction.- PART ONE: THE ANCIENT WESTERN WORLD.- 1. “The Beginnings”.- 2. “The Hippocratic Contribution” .- 3. “Plato’s Timaeus”.- 4. “Aristotle”.- 5. “Concluding with Galen”.- PART TWO: The Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Worlds.- 6. The New Paradigm: Changes leading up to the Seventeenth Century and Beyond.- 7. “Evolution, Germ Theory, and their Consequences”.- 8. “Nature Split: Big Nature and Little Nature”.- 9.“Technology and Nature: A Marriage or a Divorce?”.- Appendix: “Health...
