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| ISBN: | 9780199919819
019991981X
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| Notes: | 2. Entrenchment in Bioethics' Quest for Alternatives: Two Prominent Illustrations.
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| Summary: | While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B. Levin argues that from the Gorgias through the Laws, his handling of medicine unfolds in several key phases. Further, she shows that Plato views medicine as an important rival for authority on phusis (nature) and eudaimonia (flourishing). Levin's arguments rest on careful attention both to Plato and to the Hippocratic Corpus. Levin shows that an evident but unexpressed tension involving medicine's status emerges in the Gorgias and is explored in Plato's critiques of medicine in the Symposiu.
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| Other form: | Print version: Levin, Susan B. Plato's Rivalry with Medicine. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014 9780199919802
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