Homo patiens : approaches to the patient in the ancient world /

Homo patiens : approaches to the patient in the ancient world /

Homo Patiens - Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World is a book about the patients of the Graeco-Roman world, their role in the ancient medical encounters and their relationship to the health providers and medical practitioners of their time. This volume makes a strong claim for the relevanc...

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Other Authors: Petridou, Georgia., Thumiger, Chiara.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine 45.
Studies in Ancient Medicine Online, ISBN: 9789004380813.

Subjects:

Physician and patient > History.
Medicine, Ancient.
Medical ethics > History.

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Call Number: R135 .H66 2016

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Towards a History of the Ancient Patient's View /
  • Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger
  • 1 "This I Suffered in the Short Space of my Life". The Epitaph for Lucius Minicius Anthimianus (cig 3272; Peek gv 1166) /
  • Lutz A. Graumann and Manfred Horstmanshoff
  • 2 Questioning the Patient, Questioning Hippocrates: Rufus of Ephesus and the Pursuit of Knowledge /
  • Melinda Letts
  • 3 Patient Function and Physician Function in the Hippocratic Cases /
  • Chiara Thumiger
  • 4 Case History as Minority Report in the Hippocratic Epidemics 1 /
  • John Z. Wee
  • 5 Voice Pathologies and the 'Hippocratic Triangle' /
  • Colin Webster
  • 6 Galen's Anxious Patients: Lypē as Anxiety Disorder /
  • Susan P. Mattern
  • 7 Experiencing Madness: Mental Patients in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Medicine /
  • Pauline Koetschet
  • 8 Interpretations of the Healer's Touch in the Hippocratic Corpus /
  • Jennifer Kosak
  • 9 Patience for the Little Patient: The Infant in Soranus' Gynaecia /
  • Lesley Bolton
  • 10 Compassion in Soranus' Gynecology and Caelius Aurelianus' On Chronic Diseases /
  • Amber J. Porter
  • 11 Galen on the Patient's Role in Pain Diagnosis: Sensation, Consensus, and Metaphor /
  • Courtney Roby
  • 12 The Μισθάριον in the Praecepta: The Medical Fee and its Impact on the Patient /
  • Giulia Ecca
  • 13 The Practical Application of Ancient Pulse-Lore and its Influence on the Patient-Doctor Interaction /
  • Orly Lewis
  • 14 Images of Doctors and their Implements: A Visual Dialogue between the Patient and the Doctor /
  • Patricia A. Baker
  • 15 Case Histories in Late Byzantium: Reading the Patient in John Zacharias Aktouarios' On Urines /
  • Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
  • 16 Treatment of the Man: Galen's Preventive Medicine in the De Sanitate Tuenda /
  • John M. Wilkins
  • 17 Literary and Documentary Evidence for Lay Medical Practice in the Roman Republic and Empire /
  • Jane Draycott
  • 18 Aelius Aristides as Informed Patient and Physician /
  • Georgia Petridou
  • 19 "It may not cure you, it may not save your life, but it will help you" /
  • Katherine D. van Schaik
  • 20 Epilogue: Approaches to the History of Patients: From the Ancient World to Early Modern Europe /
  • Michael Stolberg
  • Index locorum
  • Index rerum.