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  • Chapter 2 - Practical Ethics in Technical Accounts

  • from Part I - Moral Themes and Types of Moralism in Galen
  • Sophia Xenophontos, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
  • Book:
    Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen
    Published online:
    14 December 2023
    Print publication:
    04 January 2024, pp 33-50
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    This Chapter discusses some of Galen’s technical works, especially those dealing with physiological psychology to show that Galen’s resourceful combination of popular philosophy and medicine is intended to promote mental alertness in his readers in various aspects of their personal and social lives, such as the symposium or the area of maintaining good health (hygiene). The control of emotions and the social embeddedness of ethics that Galen emphasises in these passages while at the same time describing the physical basis of character formation, make him stand out from other medical authors inasmuch as they reveal his proposed vision of a moral form of medicine.