The symptom and the subject : the emergence of the physical body in ancient Greece /

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The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with studies of early ethical philosophy and Eurip...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holmes, Brooke, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Symptoms.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Human body > Greece.
Medicine > Philosophy.
History, Ancient
Human Body
Philosophy, Medical
Signs and Symptoms
Signes et symptômes.
Médecine grecque et romaine.
Corps humain > Grèce.
Médecine > Philosophie.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > History.
Civilization.
Human body.
Greece > Civilization.
Greece
Grèce > Civilisation.
Greece.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Transliterations and Translations
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Symptoms and Subjects
  • Seeing through Symptoms
  • The Physical Imagination
  • Rethinking Sma and Psukh
  • Telling Stories
  • CHAPTER ONE: Before the Physical Body
  • Daemonic Violence
  • The Seen and the Felt
  • The Boundaries of the Felt
  • Fear and the Visual Field of the Self
  • How Gods Act
  • The Seen Body and Social Agency
  • Interpreting Disease and Practices of Healing
  • CHAPTER TWO: The Inquiry into Nature and the Physical Imagination
  • Depersonalizing Causes
  • Natural Justice
  • Melissus and the Denial of Bod
  • A Community of Objects
  • Bodies, Persons, Knowledge
  • CHAPTER THREE: Incorporating the Daemonic
  • Symptoms at the Threshold of Seen and Unseen
  • The Interval
  • Explaining Disease
  • The Dynamics of the Cavity
  • The Automatic Body
  • CHAPTER FOUR: Signs of Life and Techniques of Taking Care
  • The Prognostic Symptom: Forces of Life and Death
  • Fragile Life
  • On Ancient Medicine and the Discovery of Human Nature
  • Embodiment, Knowledge, and Technical Agency
  • Taking Care
  • Shoring up the Self
  • CHAPTER FIVE: Beyond the Sma
  • Bodily Needs
  • Psychic Desires
  • Gorgias's Encomium to Helen and Human Diseases
  • Psychic Disorder in Democritus
  • CHAPTER SIX: Forces of Nature, Acts of Gods
  • The Polysemy of the Symptom
  • Tragedy and the Interval
  • Euripides' Causes: The Madness of Heracles
  • Euripides' Causes: The Madness of Orestes
  • Realizing Disease in the Hippolytus
  • Daemonic Phusis
  • The Semantics of Suffering
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
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  • General Index
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