Evolution of medical education in ancient Greece

The study of ancient Greece is essential for the proper understanding of the evolution of modern Western medicine. An important innovation of classical Greek medicine was the development of a body of medical theory associated with natural philosophy, i.e. a strong secular tradition of free enquiry,

Methods and management in ancient Egyptian and Greek medicine

Objective:Demonstrate that some ancient Egyptian medical treatments are still used today while Greeks appropriated many concepts that have partially disappeared.Methods:Through the study of classical authors,Egyptian papyri,ancient medical sources and historical and recent research,this article examines some neglected aspects in the traditional picture of ancient Egyptian medicine,now considered the cradle of scientific inquiry.Results:A framework of important health conditions must be highlighted in Egypt:accurate diagnosis similar to the present,training of highly skilled specialists,a health care system,greatly advanced for its time,although including magical practices and spells,because all types of healers coexisted peacefully.Hippocratic medicine also adopted Egyptian incubation,the same scientific and rational systems in patient therapy and older Egyptian ideas and remedies.The brilliant Egyptian hypothesis about gastrointestinal residuals or wxdw,a methodical approach to interpreting internal diseases,opened the road to a coherent and scientific therapy.Based on the Egyptian idea of self-intoxication through dangerous materials and of pathogenic decay that survives in the modern use of the Greek word sepsis,different Greek medical schools have been influenced and are even well developed in modern times.When they realized that putrefaction began in the intestine,they applied mummification and embalming for corpses and employed emetics,purges and enemas in patients.Greeks,by contrast,to avoid contamination,adopted dead cremation and their false humoral theory remained until the 17th century AC,as well as the false benign pus.Conclusions:Egyptian physicians,still ignoring the concept of infection or inflammation,clearly recognized local purulence and identified the presence and growth of pathogenic agents in infections.Thus,they were pioneers in solving pyogenic lesion debridement and diagnose the feverish profile of a noxious laceration,starting the prevention and control of infection used today.

Features, Transformation and Historical Influence of Ancient Greek View of Friendship

Historical changes in the view of friendship is an important tool for understanding the Western culture history. Ancient Greek society built tension between friendship theory and reality, relying on Life characteristics and cultural prosperity contending. They integrated the common brotherhood love, friendship, family, relationships between God and person, citizenship love into their lives through its unique lifestyle, and began a process of mutual shaping. It is intense and harmonious of sex and love,this is the most significant feature of their friendship view. There are a number of reasons of culture, politics and life for the Transition of Ancient Greek view of friendship. Ancient Greek view of friendship has been echoed in history, and has important implications to China's cultural and moral construction.

From Cultural Memory to Poetic Memory： Ancient Greek Practices of History Beyond the ＂Great Divide＂

In a recent comparative confrontation between the Peloponnesian war and the Polynesian war, the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins asked for the agents of history： individuals？ communities？ the social classes？ the economic structures？ the social structures？ Actually, for the American anthropologist, ＂no history without culture.＂ But the question is to focus on the different discursive forms which transforms the events of history in historiography, in a （referential and not fictional） story; these different （often poetic） forms of historiography shape a collective and cultural memory. The Greek case is particularly significant under that point of view as far as historiography is always situated between oral tradition and written tradition （Jack Goody）, between poetic forms and forms of prose, with an important political, social, religious, and ideological impact.

Scale,Information-Processing,and Complementarities in Old-World Axial Age Societies

Recent cross-disciplinary work on quantifying historical dynamics has made major contributions to scholarship.However,efforts to specify relationships between scale and information-processing always run a risk of shoehorning messy realities into overly rigid categories.In the case of the first-millennium BCE“Axial Age”in the Old World,networks of collective computing were structured more by cultural systems than by polities,and to understand the relationships between political scale and collective computational abilities,scholars need categories flexible enough to clarify the complementarities between political and cultural systems.