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Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina traces the history of conceptions of mental disorder in Graeco-Roman medical writings, from the 1st century BCE to the 7th CE, with detailed studies of all significant authors.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Thumiger, Chiara (Editor ), Singer, P. N. (Peter N.), 1962- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Colección:Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 50.
Temas:
To 1500
Mental illness > Treatment > History > To 1500.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Mental Disorders > history
Mental Disorders > therapy
History, Ancient
Maladies mentales > Traitement.
HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General
MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine
MEDICAL / Diseases
MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine
MEDICAL / Internal Medicine
Mental illness > Treatment
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Between insanity and wisdom : perceptions of melancholy in the ps.
  • Hippocratic letters 10-17 / George Kazantzidis
  • "Not a daimon, but a severe illness" : Oribasius, Posidonius and later ancient perspectives on superhuman agents causing disease / Nadine Metzger
  • Athenaeus of Attalia on the psychological causes of bodily health / Sean Coughlin
  • Archigenes of Apamea's treatment of mental diseases / Orly Lewis
  • Mental perceptions and pathology in the work of Rufus of Ephesus / Melinda Letts
  • Mental disorders and psychological suffering in Galen's Cases / Julien Devinant
  • Galen on memory, forgetting and memory loss / Ricardo Julião
  • Stomachikon, hydrophobia and other eating disturbances : volition and taste in late-antique medical discussions / Chiara Thumiger
  • "A most acute, disgusting and indecent disease" : satyriasis and sexual disorders in ancient medicine / Chiara Thumiger
  • Mental derangement in methodist nosography : what Caelius Aurelianus had to say / Anna Maria Urso
  • Mental illnesses in the medical compilations of late antiquity : the case of Aëtius of Amida / Ricarda Gabel
  • Making the distinction : the stoic view of mental illness / Marke Ahonen
  • Philosophical psychological therapy : did it have any impact on medical practice? / Christopher Gill
  • Galen's pathological soul : diagnosis and therapy in ethical and medical texts and contexts / P.N. Singer.

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