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Holism in Ancient Medicine and Its Reception
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Holism: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter 1 Holism, Parts, Wholes -- Chapter 2 Holism, Sympathy, and the Living Being in Ancient Greek Medicine and Philosophy -- Chapter 3 &#...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
: BRILL
, 2020
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| Series: | Studies in Ancient Medicine Ser
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6419890 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Holism: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter 1 Holism, Parts, Wholes -- Chapter 2 Holism, Sympathy, and the Living Being in Ancient Greek Medicine and Philosophy -- Chapter 3 'Holism' in Cognitive Approaches to the Ancient Emotions -- Part 2 Is Graeco-Roman Medicine Holistic? -- Chapter 4 Hippocratic Holisms -- Chapter 5 Holism and the Methodists -- Chapter 6 Is Graeco-Roman Medicine Holistic? Galen and Ancient Medical-Philosophical Debates -- Chapter 7 Holism of Body and Mind in Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy -- Chapter 8 Plato's Charmides on Philosophy as Holistic Medical Practice -- Chapter 9 A Woman in Flux: Fluidity in Hippocratic Gynaecology -- Chapter 10 Cohesive Causes in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Medicine -- Chapter 11 Pneuma as a Holistic Concept in Galen -- Part 3 Medical Holism beyond the Graeco-Roman World -- Chapter 12 Humoralism in AĚ„yurvedic Medicine -- Chapter 13 A Systemic Etiology of Sicknesses from Ancient Iraq: Organ Systems and the Functional Holism of the Babylonian Body -- Chapter 14 Epidemic Disease in a Humoral Environment: From Airs, Waters and Places to the Renaissance -- Chapter 15 Mind-Body Interaction: The Influence of Ancient Ideas in Twelfth-Century England -- Chapter 16 'Treating the Patient, Not Just the Disease': Reading Ancient Medicine in Modern Holistic Medicine -- Index Rerum -- Index Locorum -- Index Verborum (selected). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (461 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004443143 |
