Holism in Ancient Medicine and its Reception /
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 large...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden; Boston :
BRILL,
2021.
Series:
Studies in Ancient Medicine ;
53.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441040.
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Call Number: R733
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- 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 Bartoš
- 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 Āyurvedic Medicine
- Francis Zimmermann
- 13 A Systemic 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
- Index Rerum
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum.