PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE, VOL. I, ATHENS 1998, 204

The papers published in this volume will be useful to philosophers, classicists, doctors and medical professionals. They examine issues and problems of philosophy and medicine from within the prism of the tradition of ancient Greek philosophy and medicine and from within the contemporary context.

In the Hellenic tradition which lasted for several millennia, these two disciplines, mainly as arts, were considered as the two most important parts of a doctor's and a philosopher's theoretical education and practice. However, in our times given the significance of technological progress and its application in medicine and how this may pose a danger that man, as patient, may be treated as an object and no longer as a person, we can conclude that inquiry into the correlation of medicine and philosophy can only contribute to the betterment of man's state of affairs.

The issues that are examined in the texts which are published in these two volumes not only concentrate on the relation of medicine to philosophy in general, but they also consider a wide range of particular problems of scholarly importance such as the following:

Pre-Socratic philosophers and medicine; Socrates as physician of the soul; Plato, medicine and mental health; Plato's views on disease of the body and the soul in the Symposium, Timaeus, and other dialogues; Plato and psychopathology and particularly Plato and Freud; Hippocratic texts and the importance of Hippocratic medicine for the consideration of moral problems; Aristotle's view of the passions, medicine, ethics, and entelecheia as a paradigm for today's health problems; Stoic views on suicide and assisted death; dreams and therapy; music and therapy; Galen's views on philosophy and medicine and his thoughts on the powers of man; and finally, a theme that was present throughout the conference: what are the criteria for health and can we speak of criteria for physical, political and moral health?

The articles in the present volume should be studied in conjunction with the papers contained in the second volume on the Philosophy and Medicine .

CONTENTS

John P. Anton, Philosophy, Medicine and political pathology.
George Boger, The sophistic character of Hippocratic treatises.
K. Boudouris, Philosophy and medicine.
Armelle Debru, Altruisme et l' ethique hippocratique.
Olga Fedorova, Health and disease in Timaeus.
Martin Gunderson, Stoicism, suicide and death
Robert Meredith Helm , Psyche and soma, mind and body in Greek philosophy and modern medicine.
Helen Karabatzaki , Stoic elements in Galen's medical and philosophical thought .
Menahem Luz, The philosophical background of hippocrates' On nutriment.
Alfred E. Miller & Maria G. Miller, Aristotle's entelecheia as a paradigm for today's health problems.
Henry Newell, Six forms of Platonic psychopathology.
Thomas Olshewsky, Hippocratic natures and Aristotelian elements.
R. Purtill & L.Cherbakova -Castle, Ancient and modern medical ethics
Jeremiah Reedy, Dreams and therapy.
Thomas M. Robinson, Greek medicine and some Platonic views of health
Gerasimos Santas, Plato and Freud on health and justice.
Werner Schulze, Armonia and psyche. Remarks on the philosophical background of music therapy
Kathryn A. Socie, Socrates on a more perfect craft of medicin.
Daryl M. Tress, Aristotle against the Hippocratics on sexual generation
Joanne Waugh, Socrates : physician of the soul.
James Witchalls, What is health ?
Judy Wubnig,Hiccups and hangovers in Plato's Symposium Eryximachus the physician
Hideya Yamakawa, Hippocrates in Japan