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Galen and the rhetoric of healing /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The stories in context
- Society and culture. Galen's life ; Diseases and death in Rome ; Galen and Greek culture ; Galen's corpus ; Galen's audience : "friends and companions" ; Professionalism and social status
- Narrative and medicine. Hippocratic case histories ; Case histories after the Hippocratic corpus ; Inscriptions and the Cult of Asclepius ; Written tradition and clinical experience ; Case histories in Galen's work ; Memory and autobiography
- Place and time
- Context and authenticity
- Place. City ; Country ; Houses
- Time. Chronology ; Medical time ; Time and narrative structure
- The contest : rivals, specators, and judges
- Agon
- Rivals. Other physicians ; Confrontation ; Demonstrating superiority
- Audience. Witness and judge ; The addressee ; Friends ; Rivals and patients ; Family and household ; Husbands, fathers, and masters
- Failure
- Case history and healing narrative
- The patient
- Presenting the patient. Names and terms ; Temperament and constitution ; Age ; Sex : female patients ; Social information ; Conclusion
- The patient as character. The patient's perspective ; The patient's lifestyle ; Character and emotion ; Conclusion
- Physician and patient
- The physician's perspective : "I" and "we"
- Physician and patient. Intimacy ; Obedience ; Perceiving the patient
- Fever
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. Works cited from Galen's corpus
- Appendix B. Table of cases.