The Brill publishing house has recently published a monograph "Aristotle reads Hippocrates", edited by Hynek Bartoš and Vojtěch Linka. It is one of the outputs of their joint grant project "Mixtures of Body and Soul" (GAČR 22-07058S). The book is now freely available in Open Access mode.
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Despite Aristotle's family background and his undeniable impact on ancient Greek medicine, the influence of medicine on Aristotle's philosophy is controversial and far from universally acknowledged. The aim of this volume is to re-examine the influence of medical knowledge and literature on Aristotle's work, in particular to explore the connections with the Hippocratic writings. The volume encourages further exploration of this interdisciplinary area and offers new insights by presenting a series of case studies that examine in detail specific debates within the Aristotelian corpus in relation to the medical literature.
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