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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hartigan, Karelisa V.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
Colección:Classical inter/faces.
Temas:
Greek drama > History and criticism.
Healing > Greece > History.
Healing > United States.
Théâtre grec > Histoire et critique.
Guérison > Grèce > Histoire.
Guérison > États-Unis.
Greek drama
Healing
Greece
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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.

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