Holism in ancient medicine and its reception / edited by Chiara Thumiger.

Date:
[2021]
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"This volume aims at exploring the ancient roots of 'holistic' approaches in the specific field of medicine and the life sciences, without however overlooking the larger theoretical implications of these discussions. Therefore, the project plans to broaden the perspective to include larger cultural discussions and, in a comparative spirit, reach out to some examples from non Graeco-Roman medical cultures. As such, it constitutes a fundamental contribution to history of medicine, philosophy of medicine, cultural studies, and ancient studies more broadly. The wide-ranging selection of chapters offers a comprehensive view of an exciting new field: the interrogation of ancient sources in the light of modern concepts in philosophy of medicine, as justification of the claim for their enduring relevance as object of study and, at the same time, as means to a more adequate contextualisation of modern debates within a long historical process"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Physical description

xiii, 447 pages ; 24 cm.

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Contents

Introduction / Chiara Thumiger -- Part 1. Holism : methodological and theoretical perspectives. 1. Holism, parts, wholes / Chiara Thumiger -- 2. Holism, sympathy, and the living being in ancient Greek medicine and philosophy / Brooke Holmes -- 3. 'Holism' in cognitive approaches to the ancient emotions / William Michael Short -- Part 2. Is Graeco-Roman medicine holistic? 4. Hippocratic holisms / Hynek Bartos -- 5. Holism and the Methodists / David Leith -- 6. Is Graeco-Roman medicine holistic? Galen and ancient medical-philosophical debates / P. N. Singer -- 7. Holism of body and mind in Hippocratic medicine and Greek tragedy / Elizabeth Craik -- 8. Plato's Charmides on philosophy as holistic medical practice / Giouli Korobili and Konstantinos Stefou -- 9. A woman in flux : fluidity in Hippocratic gynaecology / Laurence M. V. Totelin -- 10. Cohesive causes in ancient Greek philosophy and medicine / Sean Coughlin -- 11. Pneuma as a holistic concept in Galen / Julius Rocca -- Part 3. Medical holism beyond the Graeco-Roman world. 12. Humoralism in Ayurvedic medicine / Francis Zimmermann -- 13. A systematic etiology of sicknesses from ancient Iraq : organ systems and the functional holism of the Babylonian body / John Z. Wee -- 14. Epidemic disease in a humoral environment : from Airs, Waters and Places to the Renaissance / Vivian Nutton -- 15. Mind-body interaction : the influence of ancient ideas in twelfth-century England / Claire Trenery -- 16. 'Treating the patient, not just the disease' : reading ancient medicine in modern holistic medicine / Helen King.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9789004443082
  • 9004443088