2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Philosophical Approach to the Impact of the Development of Anatomical Physiology on the View of Human Nature in Hellenistic Period
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22520002
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy/Ethics
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| Research Institution | Hirosaki University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 解剖生理学 / 脳中心主義 / ヒッポクラテス医学の伝統 |
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| Research Abstract |
The focus of my research was on the anatomical physiology established by early Hellenistic physicians as science of a human body and its impact on the development of their contemporary view of human nature. Specifically, I have made it clear that early Hellenistic physicians represented by Herophilus of Chalcedon (c.330-250 BC) and Erasistratus of Ceos (c.320-240 BC), innovative as they may have been in their remarkable medical achievements, such as the discovery of nerves, were probably faithful followers of the tradition of encephalocentric model of a human being in Hippocratic medicine.
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