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Heroic measures : Hippocratic medicine in the making of Euripidean tragedy /
This book demonstrates the importance of Greek medical thought in the work of Euripides. The first part of the book argues for the significance of the healing figure in Euripidean drama, while the second part analyzes the role of traditional and rationalist healing strategies in the construction of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
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| Colección: | Studies in ancient medicine ;
v. 30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Tragedy, medicine and suffering in the fifth century B.C
- Chapter One: The Healing Art
- a. The Healer: Lively metaphor and lived reality
- b. Technê and Technitai in the Hippocratic Corpus
- c. Heroic measures and the healing art
- Chapter Two: Healers in Greek Tragedy
- a. Prometheus Bound: The healer as philanthropist
- b. Euripides' Hippolytus: The charlatan in action
- c. Ion: Malpractice suits
- d. Medea: First, do no harm
- e. Orestes: No heroic measures
- Chapter Three: The Story of Disease.
- Chapter Four: Causes of Disease in the Hippocratic Corpus
- Chapter Five: Remedy in the Hippocratic Corpus
- a. Allopathy
- b. Metabolê
- c. Apostasis
- d. Malthakia and ischys
- Chapter Six: Finding the Cause and Finding the Cure: Four Euripidean Plays
- a. Orestes: No way out
- b. Heracles: Politics, plagues and the patient
- c. Phoenissae: Balanced interiors
- d. Bacchae: Homeopathy and repression
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index nominum et rerum
- Index locorum.