Gebundenes Buch

Holism in Ancient Medicine and Its Reception

Beschreibung

This volume aims at exploring the ancient roots of 'holistic' approaches in the specific field of medicine and the life sciences, with attention to the larger theoretical implications of these discussions, and their reception in modern debates.

Autor

Chiara Thumiger, Ph.D. (2004), Habil. (2017) is a Research Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence Roots at Kiel University. She is a classicist and historian of medicine. She has worked on a variety of medical themes and authors from the Hippocratic Corpus to the late-antique world and beyond - most recently on the ancient disease phrenitis. She has also published on tragedy, ancient animals and history of emotions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9789004443082
• ISBN-10: 9004443088
• Artikelnr.: 59952051