Tabla de Contenidos: “…part, 5I The Classical world -- chapter Introduction / chapter 1 Alcmaeon and his addressees -- Revisiting the incipit * / chapter 2 Gone with the wind -- Laughter and the audience of the Hippocratic treatises / chapter 3 The professional audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics -- Patient cases in Hippocratic scientific communication 1 / part, 65II The Imperial world -- chapter 4 Galen’s Exhortation to the Study of Medicine -- An educational work for prospective medical students * / chapter 5 An interpretation of the preface to Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems 1 by Pseudo-Alexander of Aphrodisias in light of medical education * / part, 111III The Islamic world -- chapter 6 The user-friendly Galen -- Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq and the adaptation of Greek medicine for a new audience / chapter 7 Medical knowledge as proof of the Creator’s wisdom and the Arabic reception of Galen’s On the Usefulness of the Parts / part, 151IV The Byzantine world -- chapter 8 Physician versus physician -- Comparing the audience of On the Constitution of Man by Meletios and Epitome on the Nature of Men by Leo the Physician * / chapter 9 Reading Galen in Byzantium -- The fate of Therapeutics to Glaucon *…”