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Holism in Ancient Medicine and Its Reception

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thumiger, Chiara
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Colección:Studies in Ancient Medicine Ser.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Holism: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives
  • Chapter 1 Holism, Parts, Wholes
  • Chapter 2 Holism, Sympathy, and the Living Being in Ancient Greek Medicine and Philosophy
  • Chapter 3 'Holism' in Cognitive Approaches to the Ancient Emotions
  • Part 2 Is Graeco-Roman Medicine Holistic?
  • Chapter 4 Hippocratic Holisms
  • Chapter 5 Holism and the Methodists
  • Chapter 6 Is Graeco-Roman Medicine Holistic? Galen and Ancient Medical-Philosophical Debates
  • Chapter 7 Holism of Body and Mind in Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy
  • Chapter 8 Plato's Charmides on Philosophy as Holistic Medical Practice
  • Chapter 9 A Woman in Flux: Fluidity in Hippocratic Gynaecology
  • Chapter 10 Cohesive Causes in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Medicine
  • Chapter 11 Pneuma as a Holistic Concept in Galen
  • Part 3 Medical Holism beyond the Graeco-Roman World
  • Chapter 12 Humoralism in Āyurvedic Medicine
  • Chapter 13 A Systemic Etiology of Sicknesses from Ancient Iraq: Organ Systems and the Functional Holism of the Babylonian Body
  • Chapter 14 Epidemic Disease in a Humoral Environment: From Airs, Waters and Places to the Renaissance
  • Chapter 15 Mind-Body Interaction: The Influence of Ancient Ideas in Twelfth-Century England
  • Chapter 16 'Treating the Patient, Not Just the Disease': Reading Ancient Medicine in Modern Holistic Medicine
  • Index Rerum
  • Index Locorum
  • Index Verborum (selected)