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M Vegetti

Publications and source records attributed to M Vegetti.

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PubMed1995

[Galen and the refounding of medicine].

The writings of Galen discussed in this article present an outline of the project he devoted his life to. Firstly, the reconstruction of a higher model of medical knowledge, in terms of its epistemological legitimization and its cultural and social role. Galen's refoundation of the epistemological statute of medicine involved increased emphasis on axiomatization, albeit not without disregard to data obtained through experience as a final guarantee. Secondly, the construction of a lay morality, independent of the ties to power or religious constraints. Through anatomy and physiology, Galen was attempting to comprehend the providential notion that governed nature: a powerful ideology set against the uncertainty of philosophers and the propagation of irrationalist religions. From this extreme position, the galenic physician demanded that medicine be not only a general task of ideological and cultural orientation, but also a source of real, particular power over the control of moral behavior and social deviation.

History, Ancient↗
PubMed1995

[Law and nature in the Hippocratic treatise De aëre].

The treatise can be considered as one of the first and most important writings of the ancient ethnology. Its most outstanding character consists in an interrelated analysis of the influence both of natural environment and of the political and social conditions on pathology and on the different ways of life. If the natural and climatic aspects of the human habitat play a basic role in determining the health conditions as well as the psychic characters of different populations, it is also true that the political institutions can counteract on these environmental factors. In particular, freedom and democracy may improve the moral and intellectual attitudes of men, while dispotic forms of power make them unwilling to fight and to exercise autonomous judgement. The psychological and intellectual superiority of the Greeks should be traced back to their democratic institutions, that could apply to other people as well.

Air↗
PubMed1995

[The epistemology of Erasistrate and Hellenistic technology].

Erasistratus tried to build a coherent system of medicine founded on anatomical discoveries from which both physiology and pathology could be consistently derived. In this system, the so-called logôi theôrêta are not merely theoretical constructions, but models (and/or metaphors) transferred to medicine from the two branches of contemporary Hellenistic technology, artillery and pneumatics. However, this system could not stand to the criticism of Empiricist medicine, both because of its oversimplification of pathology and therapy and because of its exceedingly heavy epistemological requirements.

Anatomy↗
PubMed1991

Medical ethics in ancient times.

Moral self-regulation is all the more important in ancient medicine since medical training and practice in the Greek-Roman world were not subjected to any legal or state regulations. Physicians on the one hand had to acquire scientific skills, through voluntary efforts, and on the other hand had to offer the image of a "friend-physician" with respect for the personality of the patient. This code of conduct would distinguish the professionally serious physician from the many quack-doctors who claimed to be healers. Conversely, the famous text of the so called "Hippocratic Oath" cannot be considered as a significant example of the prevailing positions in ancient medicine, because it draws inspiration from philosophical-religious concerns typical of the Pythagoric sect.

Ethics, Medical↗
PubMed1990

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Economics, Medical↗
PubMed1967

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Greece, Ancient↗