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Holism in Ancient Medicine and Its Reception

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This volume aims at exploring the ancient roots of ‘holistic’ approaches in the specific field of medicine and the life sciences, without, however, overlooking the larger theoretical implications of these discussions. Therefore, the project plans to broaden the perspective to include larger cultural discussions and, in a comparative spirit, reach out to some examples from non Graeco-Roman medical cultures. As such, it constitutes a fundamental contribution to history of medicine, philosophy of medicine, cultural studies, and ancient studies more broadly. The wide-ranging selection of chapters offers a comprehensive view of an exciting new field: the interrogation of ancient sources in the light of modern concepts in philosophy of medicine, as justification of the claim for their enduring relevance as object of study and, at the same time, as means to a more adequate contextualisation of modern debates within a long historical process.Contributors are: Hynek Bartoš, Sean Coughlin, Elizabeth Craik, Brooke Holmes, Helen King, Giouli Korobili, David Leith, Vivian Nutton, Julius Rocca, William Michael Short, P. N. Singer, Konstantinos Stefou, Chiara Thumiger, Laurence Totelin, Claire Trenery, John Wee, Francis Zimmermann.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-12-03
Mått155 x 235 x 35 mm
Vikt894 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Ancient Medicine
Antal sidor450
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004443082

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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.

AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionChiara ThumigerPart 1: Holism: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives1 Holism, Parts, WholesChiara Thumiger2 Holism, Sympathy, and the Living Being in Ancient Greek Medicine and PhilosophyBrooke Holmes3 ‘Holism’ in Cognitive Approaches to the Ancient EmotionsWilliam Michael ShortPart 2: Is Graeco-Roman Medicine Holistic?4 Hippocratic HolismsHynek Bartoš5 Holism and the MethodistsDavid Leith6 Is Graeco-Roman Medicine Holistic? Galen and Ancient Medical-Philosophical DebatesP. N. Singer7 Holism of Body and Mind in Hippocratic Medicine and Greek TragedyElizabeth Craik8 Plato’s Charmides on Philosophy as Holistic Medical PracticeGiouli Korobili and Konstantinos Stefou9 A Woman in Flux: Fluidity in Hippocratic GynaecologyLaurence M. V. Totelin10 Cohesive Causes in Ancient Greek Philosophy and MedicineSean Coughlin11 Pneuma as a Holistic Concept in GalenJulius RoccaPart 3: Medical Holism beyond the Graeco-Roman World12 Humoralism in Āyurvedic MedicineFrancis Zimmermann13 A Systemic Etiology of Sicknesses from Ancient Iraq: Organ Systems and the Functional Holism of the Babylonian BodyJohn Z. Wee14 Epidemic Disease in a Humoral Environment: From Airs, Waters and Places to the RenaissanceVivian Nutton15 Mind-Body Interaction: The Influence of Ancient Ideas in Twelfth-Century EnglandClaire Trenery16 ‘Treating the Patient, Not Just the Disease’: Reading Ancient Medicine in Modern Holistic MedicineHelen KingIndex RerumIndex LocorumIndex Nominum