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Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity : Theory, Practice, Suffering. Ancient Emotions III / ed. by George Kazantzidis, Dimos Spatharas.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 131Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (X, 298 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110771893
  • 9783110772012
  • 9783110771930
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 152.4 23
LOC classification:
  • R135 .M43 2022
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 emotions. Thus, the contributions included in this volume offer comparative ground that helps readers and researchers interested in ancient emotions pin down possible interfaces and differences between systematic and lay cultural understandings of emotions. Although the volume emphasizes the multifaceted links between medicine and ancient philosophical thinking, especially ethics, it also pays due attention to the representation of patients' feelings in the extant medical treatises and doctors' emotional reticence. The chapters that constitute this volume investigate a great range of medical writers including Hippocrates and the Hippocratics, and Galen, while comparative approaches to medical writings and philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, dwell on the notion of wonder/admiration (thauma), conceptualizations of the body and the soul, and the category pathos itself. The volume also sheds light on the metaphorical uses of medicine in ancient thinking.
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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

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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 emotions. Thus, the contributions included in this volume offer comparative ground that helps readers and researchers interested in ancient emotions pin down possible interfaces and differences between systematic and lay cultural understandings of emotions. Although the volume emphasizes the multifaceted links between medicine and ancient philosophical thinking, especially ethics, it also pays due attention to the representation of patients' feelings in the extant medical treatises and doctors' emotional reticence. The chapters that constitute this volume investigate a great range of medical writers including Hippocrates and the Hippocratics, and Galen, while comparative approaches to medical writings and philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, dwell on the notion of wonder/admiration (thauma), conceptualizations of the body and the soul, and the category pathos itself. The volume also sheds light on the metaphorical uses of medicine in ancient thinking.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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