Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preliminary Material / M. Horstmanshoff -- Hippocrates As Galen’s Teacher / Jacques Jouanna -- Textual Therapy. On The Relationship Between Medicine And Grammar In Galen / Ineke Sluiter -- Physician. A Metapaedogogical Text / Lesley Dean-Jones -- Training Showmanship. Rhetoric In Greek Medical Education Of The Fifth And Fourth Centuries BC / Pankaj K. Agarwalla -- The Importance Of Having Medical Knowledge As A Layman. The Hippocratic Treatise Affections In The Context Of The Hippocratic Corpus / Pilar Pérez Cañizares -- Educating The Public, Defending The Art: Language Use And Medical Education In Hippocrates ‘ The Art / Adriaan Rademaker -- Research Program And Teaching Led By The Master In Hippocrates’ Epidemics 2, 4 and 6 / Robert Alessi -- The Physician As Teacher. Epistemic Function, Cognitive Function And The Incommensurability Of Errors / Roberto Lo Presti -- ‘Choose Your Master Well’. Medical Training, Testimonies And Claims To Authority / Natacha Massar -- Doctors’ Literacy And Papyri Of Medical Content / Ann Ellis Hanson -- The Curriculum Of Studies In The Roman Empire And The Cultural Role Of Physicians / Gabriele Marasco -- The Teaching Of Surgery / Elizabeth Craik -- Teaching Surgery In Late Byzantine Alexandria / John Scarborough -- The Educated Midwife In The Roman Empire. An Example Of Differential Equations / Christian Laes -- Teaching The Hippocratic Gynaecological Recipes? / Laurence M.V. Totelin -- Analogical Method, Experiment And Didacticism In The Hippocratic Treatises Generation/Nature Of The Child /Diseases 4 / Daniela Fausti -- Galen, Satire And The Compulsion To Instruct / Ralph M. Rosen -- Hippocrates In The Pseudo-Galenic Introduction: Or How Was Medicine Taught In Roman Times? / Caroline Petit -- Some Remarks By Galen About The Teaching And Studying Of Medicine / Juan Antonio López Férez -- The Didactic Letters Prefacing Marcellus’ On Drugs As Evidence For The Expertise And Reputation Of Doctors In The Late Roman Empire / Louise Cilliers -- Medical Education In Late Antiquity. From Alexandria To Montpellier / Peter E. Pormann -- ‘Because My Son Does Not Read Latin’. Rhetoric, Competition And Education In Middle Dutch Surgical Handbooks / Karine van ‘T Land -- Andrés Piquer And The Neo-Hippocratic Teaching Of Medicine In Eighteenth Century Spain / Jesús Angel Y Espinós -- Tradition As The Genealogy Of Truth. Hippocrates And Boerhaave Between Assimilation, Variation And Deviation / Roberto Lo Presti -- List Of Abbreviations And Titles Of The Hippocratic Corpus And Galen / M. Horstmanshoff -- Index Locorum / M. Horstmanshoff -- Index Generalis / M. Horstmanshoff.

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The collection of writings known as the Corpus Hippocraticum played a decisive role in medical education for more than twenty-four centuries. This is the first full-length volume on medical education in Graeco-Roman antiquity since Kudlien’s seminal article of 1970. Most of the articles in this volume were originally presented as papers at the XIIth International Colloquium Hippocraticum in Leiden in 2005.