Performance and Cure : Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece and Contemporary America.
In this fascinating addition to the Classical Inter/faces series, Karelisa V. Hartigan suggests that drama was regularly performed in the theatres built within or adjacent to the ancient sanctuaries of Asklepios. She argues that a pageant which showed the enactment of the god healing prompted the dr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2013.
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Colección: | Classical inter/faces.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Drama and Healing in Contemporary Medicine
- Relationship Between Mind and Body
- Art and Medicine
- II. Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece
- Cult of Asklepios
- The God
- The Process
- The Evidence
- The Sanctuaries
- Epidauros
- Other Major Healing Sites
- Regional Sites
- Local Sites
- Pausanias and Asklepios
- Athens
- III. Drama and Healing in the Contemporary American Hospital
- Case Study: Shands Hospital at the University of Florida
- IV. Asklepios Beyond the Classical World
- Asklepios and Jesus
- Healing Saints of the Greek Orthodox Church
- V. Conclusion and Epilogue.