Philip J. van der EijkPhilip J. van der Eijk is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Classics and History of Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is regarded as one of the world's leading experts in the study of ancient medicine, the recipient of a number of pestigious awards, and is a member of several learned academies. With Cambridge University Press, he has published Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity (2005), and he is editor of the series Cambridge Galen Translations. Read More Read Less