title: Cause and crisis in historians and medical writers of the classical period.
abstract: There is nothing artificial in considering possible points of contact between medicine and history in the classical period: doctors are no strangers to a historical way of thinking, and historians sometimes deal with disease in the course of their historical accounts. This paper studies the notions of cause and crisis as used by the Hippocratic writers and by the historians Herodotus and Thucydides.
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jouanna
mesh_terms: D015984:Causality; D004194:Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D006663:Historiography; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*; D014956:Writing / Q000266:history