Mental illness in ancient medicine : from Celsus to Paul of Aegina /

Mental illness in ancient medicine : from Celsus to Paul of Aegina /

In Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina a detailed account is given, by a range of experts in the field, of the development of different conceptualizations of the mind and its pathology by medical authors from the beginning of the imperial period to the seventh century C...

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Other Authors: Thumiger, Chiara., Singer, P. N. 1962-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine 50.
Studies in Ancient Medicine Online, ISBN: 9789004380813.

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Mental illness > History > To 1500.
Mental illness > Treatment > History > To 1500.

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Call Number: RC438 .M46 2018

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Primary Texts and Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Disease Classification and Mental Illness: Ancient and Modern Perspectives /
  • Chiara Thumiger and P. N. Singer
  • Broader Reflections on Mental Illness: Medical Theories in Their Socio-intellectual Context
  • Between Insanity and Wisdom: Perceptions of Melancholy in the Ps.-Hippocratic Letters 10-17 /
  • George Kazantzidis
  • "Not a Daimōn, but a Severe Illness": Oribasius, Posidonius and Later Ancient Perspectives on Superhuman Agents Causing Disease /
  • Nadine Metzger
  • Individual Authors and Themes
  • Athenaeus of Attalia on the Psychological Causes of Bodily Health* /
  • Sean Coughlin
  • Archigenes of Apamea's Treatment of Mental Diseases* /
  • Orly Lewis
  • Mental Perceptions and Pathology in the Work of Rufus of Ephesus /
  • Melinda Letts
  • Mental Disorders and Psychological Suffering in Galen's Cases* /
  • Julien Devinant
  • Galen on Memory, Forgetting and Memory Loss* /
  • Ricardo Julião
  • Stomachikon, Hydrophobia and Other Eating Disturbances: Volition and Taste in Late-Antique Medical Discussions* /
  • Chiara Thumiger
  • "A Most Acute, Disgusting and Indecent Disease": Satyriasis and Sexual Disorders in Ancient Medicine* /
  • Chiara Thumiger
  • Mental Derangement in Methodist Nosography: What Caelius Aurelianus Had to Say /
  • Anna Maria Urso
  • Mental Illnesses in the Medical Compilations of Late Antiquity: The Case of Aëtius of Amida* /
  • Ricarda Gäbel
  • Philosophy and Mental Illness
  • Making the Distinction: The Stoic View of Mental Illness /
  • Marke Ahonen
  • Philosophical Psychological Therapy: Did It Have Any Impact on Medical Practice?* /
  • Christopher Gill
  • Galen's Pathological Soul: Diagnosis and Therapy in Ethical and Medical Texts and Contexts* /
  • P. N. Singer.