Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece by G.E.R. Lloyd

Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece

G.E.R. Lloyd

260 pages • first pub 1983 (view editions)

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Taking a set of central issues from ancient Greek medicine and biology, this book studies firstly, the interaction between scientific theorising and folklore or popular assumptions; secondly, the ideological character of scientific inquiry. Topics...

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