From an archaic, unfamiliar and Greek-sounding disease described by the Hippocratics, 'phrenitis', to meningitis, stress syndrome and delirium: this book takes the reader on a journey through key phases of Western ideas about human physiology and mental health and reflects on loss and survival in the history of disease.
From an archaic, unfamiliar and Greek-sounding disease described by the Hippocratics, 'phrenitis', to meningitis, stress syndrome and delirium: this book takes the reader on a journey through key phases of Western ideas about human physiology and mental health and reflects on loss and survival in the history of disease.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
CHIARA THUMIGER is a researcher in the Cluster of Excellence Roots at the Christian-Albrechts Universität zu, Kiel. She focuses on ancient Greek and Roman thought and literature, the history of ancient medicine and the history of psychiatry, as well as on comparative approaches to the anthropology of medicine and body history. She is the author of A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought (Cambridge, 2017).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Preface and methodological issues; 2. Phrenitis in Classical (5th 4th century BCE) and Hellenistic (3rd 1st century BCE) medicine; 3. Psychology and delocalising themes. Asclepiades, Celsus and Caelius Aurelianus; 4. Theoretical aspects of Imperial nosology: localization, semiotics, chronology, etiology (1st 6th century CE); 5. Phrenitic people: patients and therapies in Imperial age and Late antique cultures (1st 6th century CE); 6. Quasi phreneticus: phrenitis in non medical sources in Imperial age and Late antique cultures (1st century BCE 7th century CE); 7. The Byzantine and medieval periods: medical receptions of phrenitis in Greek, Latin and Semitic languages (6th 14th century CE); 8. The construction of the phrenitic in larger society: from the medieval to the Early modern period; 9. Phrenitis in the modern and Early modern worlds: anatomy, pathology and the survival of Graeco Roman medicine (16th 19th century CE); 10. The modern age: the 'death' of phrenitis.
1. Preface and methodological issues; 2. Phrenitis in Classical (5th 4th century BCE) and Hellenistic (3rd 1st century BCE) medicine; 3. Psychology and delocalising themes. Asclepiades, Celsus and Caelius Aurelianus; 4. Theoretical aspects of Imperial nosology: localization, semiotics, chronology, etiology (1st 6th century CE); 5. Phrenitic people: patients and therapies in Imperial age and Late antique cultures (1st 6th century CE); 6. Quasi phreneticus: phrenitis in non medical sources in Imperial age and Late antique cultures (1st century BCE 7th century CE); 7. The Byzantine and medieval periods: medical receptions of phrenitis in Greek, Latin and Semitic languages (6th 14th century CE); 8. The construction of the phrenitic in larger society: from the medieval to the Early modern period; 9. Phrenitis in the modern and Early modern worlds: anatomy, pathology and the survival of Graeco Roman medicine (16th 19th century CE); 10. The modern age: the 'death' of phrenitis.
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