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The Symptom and the Subject : The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece /

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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Autor principal: Holmes, Brooke, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- V -- X -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Z. 
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