CS 2902: Ancient Medicine (Test 1) Study Guide Questions
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- isolationist view (many only focus on very specific topics rather than important
problems at hand)
- cultural view of Hippocrates as founder/father of medicine (so anything before his time
are ignored)
- people have limited interest in medicine
- rational medicine vs magic/superstition/religion
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1 Problems on studying of ancient medicine 2 Timeline
3 Problems with these approach.. 4 Examples of Art
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Timeline - 4th century BCE (399-300 BCE/BC) to 2nd century CE (100-199 CE/AD)
Problems with the sources when studying ancient - only a fraction of sources exists from ancient day (need to look be critical and
medicine may need to consider other timelines)
- complication with Greek society (only elite member were literate)
- experiential medicine and oral tradition (many medical theories/procedures
were observed first hand, never written down, and was passed down orally)
- throughout time, sources like texts simply destroyed
- biases of scribes: copying/recording: things published based on interest
- general public may not be interested in them
Types of sources Written texts, Art, Physical evidence
, Examples of written texts - letters, poetry, inscriptions, papyri, treaties
Examples of Art - vase, paintings, statues, relics, etc.
Examples of Physical Evidence - human remains, artifacts, tools, archeological sites/buildings
What affects Transmission of sources - Natural disasters, warfare (destroys sources)
- Monasteries picking what is transcribed (some works lost or forgotten)
- Latin medical texts before 350 AD lost
- Books translated to codex (codex more accessible/easy access, books may
contain contents that is difficult to format in codex, so they are simply left out
and eventually forgotten)
- In 850 AD/CE: changes in handwriting made in difficult for people to make
sense of what is written (more abbreviation in language/writing)
How were some medical works saved? - Galenism: Gale, well respected by people, whose words are valued. Gale
valued medicine and had a show on ancient medicine, so people followed it as
well.
- Printing press: helped preserved ancient texts
- In 1499, Greek medical record were printed.
- Opening of libraries
How does lost of sources affect us? - We can't make general/definitive statements, meaning we don't have the full
picture
- We need to use other sources to aid the picture: legal, historical, poetic,
plays, etc.
- texts assume a level of knowledge
Problems on studying of ancient medicine - isolationist view (many only focus on very specific topics rather than
important problems at hand)
- cultural view of Hippocrates as founder/father of medicine (so anything
before his time are ignored)
- people have limited interest in medicine
- rational medicine vs magic/superstition/religion
T/F, rational and "magic/supernatural" approaches go True
side by side
Causation Ideologies - seeks single entity casing disease (germ gene)
- if you know the cause, you can make a treatment
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Practice questions for this set
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- isolationist view (many only focus on very specific topics rather than important
problems at hand)
- cultural view of Hippocrates as founder/father of medicine (so anything before his time
are ignored)
- people have limited interest in medicine
- rational medicine vs magic/superstition/religion
Choose an answer
1 Problems on studying of ancient medicine 2 Timeline
3 Problems with these approach.. 4 Examples of Art
Don't know?
Terms in this set (50)
Timeline - 4th century BCE (399-300 BCE/BC) to 2nd century CE (100-199 CE/AD)
Problems with the sources when studying ancient - only a fraction of sources exists from ancient day (need to look be critical and
medicine may need to consider other timelines)
- complication with Greek society (only elite member were literate)
- experiential medicine and oral tradition (many medical theories/procedures
were observed first hand, never written down, and was passed down orally)
- throughout time, sources like texts simply destroyed
- biases of scribes: copying/recording: things published based on interest
- general public may not be interested in them
Types of sources Written texts, Art, Physical evidence
, Examples of written texts - letters, poetry, inscriptions, papyri, treaties
Examples of Art - vase, paintings, statues, relics, etc.
Examples of Physical Evidence - human remains, artifacts, tools, archeological sites/buildings
What affects Transmission of sources - Natural disasters, warfare (destroys sources)
- Monasteries picking what is transcribed (some works lost or forgotten)
- Latin medical texts before 350 AD lost
- Books translated to codex (codex more accessible/easy access, books may
contain contents that is difficult to format in codex, so they are simply left out
and eventually forgotten)
- In 850 AD/CE: changes in handwriting made in difficult for people to make
sense of what is written (more abbreviation in language/writing)
How were some medical works saved? - Galenism: Gale, well respected by people, whose words are valued. Gale
valued medicine and had a show on ancient medicine, so people followed it as
well.
- Printing press: helped preserved ancient texts
- In 1499, Greek medical record were printed.
- Opening of libraries
How does lost of sources affect us? - We can't make general/definitive statements, meaning we don't have the full
picture
- We need to use other sources to aid the picture: legal, historical, poetic,
plays, etc.
- texts assume a level of knowledge
Problems on studying of ancient medicine - isolationist view (many only focus on very specific topics rather than
important problems at hand)
- cultural view of Hippocrates as founder/father of medicine (so anything
before his time are ignored)
- people have limited interest in medicine
- rational medicine vs magic/superstition/religion
T/F, rational and "magic/supernatural" approaches go True
side by side
Causation Ideologies - seeks single entity casing disease (germ gene)
- if you know the cause, you can make a treatment
