Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity : : Theory, Practice, Suffering. Ancient Emotions III / / ed. by George Kazantzidis, Dimos Spatharas.
This volume focuses on the under-explored topic of emotions' implications for ancient medical theory and practice, while it also raises questions about patients' sentiments. Ancient medicine, along with philosophy, offer unique windows to professional and scientific explanatory models of e...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 298 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Emotions Across Medicine and Philosophy
- What is a Pathos? Where Medicine Meets Philosophy
- Drugs and Psychotropic Words in Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen
- Wonder and Perplexity across Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Greece
- Part II: Emotions in the Medical Room
- The Doctor’s Dilemma: Addressing Irrational Fears
- Shame and Concealment in the Hippocratic Corpus
- The Body to be Hidden: Shame and Ancient Medicine
- Reading and Misreading Medical Emotions: Some Cases of Female Patients in the Hippocratic Epidemics
- Part III: Medico-philosophical Treatments of Emotion
- Posidonius and the Pneumatists: The Aetiology of Emotions and Diseases
- Galen on Non-Rational Motivation and the Freedom from Emotions: A Reading of Affections of the Soul
- Disorders of the Soul: Emotions and Clinical Conditions in Galen
- The Atlas Patient: Galen on Melancholia and Psychosis
- List of Contributors
- Index Rerum et Nominum
- Index Auctorum Antiquorum et Locorum