Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgementsix -- Introduction1 -- Science, Magic, Rationality, Empiricism-A Proposal6 -- Science, Magic, Rationality, Empiricism-Modern -- Scholarship on Ancient Medicine15 -- Sources and Methodology29 -- Chapter One: The Art is Long32 -- Early Healers33 -- Transmission of Medical Knowledge44 -- Healing and Religion49 -- Chapter Two: On the Sacred Disease-Summary; History -- and Reception54 -- Summary of the Text54 -- Early Reception of the Text59 -- Modern Reception of the Text62 -- Chapter Three: On the Sacred Disease-A Sophistic -- Protreptic Speech73 -- The Definition of Techne and the Scientific Problem -- Set75 -- The Defense of Secular Medicine's Technicity78 -- Sophistic Protreptic Speeches83 -- Characteristics of Protreptic Speeches84 -- First-person verbs84 -- Epangelma85 -- The Relativity of Goods93 -- The Divine is Contrary to Nature94 -- The Divine is in Accordance with Nature95 -- The Divine is Both Contrary to Nature and is in -- Accordance with Nature96 -- The Attack on Magico-Religious Medicine's Technicity97 -- Modus Tollens Arguments108 -- Sophistic Problemata and the Technai110 -- Disease and the Divine-Adding to the Problem Set113 -- Chapter Four: Getting Their Goat125 -- Etymologies126 -- The Disease Called Sacred126 -- Diaphragm and Ears127 -- Everyday Experiences129 -- Conventional Religious Ritual129 -- Headaches and Numbness129 -- Storing Wine131 -- Physiological Description132 -- Health and the Climate135 -- Divine Punishment140 -- The Brain and Bile vs. Phlegm141 -- Fear143 -- Hereditary Curses vs. Archetai kata genos146 -- Pollution vs. Contact149 -- Conclusion156 -- Bibliography159 -- General Index167 -- Index Locorum172.