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1 online resource (x, 279 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index. |
| Contents |
The stories in context -- Society and culture. Galen's life ; Diseases and death in Rome ; Galen and Greek culture ; Galen's corpus ; Galen's audience : "friends and companions" ; Professionalism and social status -- Narrative and medicine. Hippocratic case histories ; Case histories after the Hippocratic corpus ; Inscriptions and the Cult of Asclepius ; Written tradition and clinical experience ; Case histories in Galen's work ; Memory and autobiography -- Place and time -- Context and authenticity -- Place. City ; Country ; Houses -- Time. Chronology ; Medical time ; Time and narrative structure -- The contest : rivals, specators, and judges -- Agon -- Rivals. Other physicians ; Confrontation ; Demonstrating superiority -- Audience. Witness and judge ; The addressee ; Friends ; Rivals and patients ; Family and household ; Husbands, fathers, and masters -- Failure -- Case history and healing narrative -- The patient -- Presenting the patient. Names and terms ; Temperament and constitution ; Age ; Sex : female patients ; Social information ; Conclusion -- The patient as character. The patient's perspective ; The patient's lifestyle ; Character and emotion ; Conclusion -- Physician and patient -- The physician's perspective : "I" and "we" -- Physician and patient. Intimacy ; Obedience ; Perceiving the patient -- Fever -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Works cited from Galen's corpus -- Appendix B. Table of cases. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Galen.
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Galen. |
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Galen. |
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Medicine, Greek and Roman.
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Medicine, Greek and Roman. |
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Physician and patient -- History.
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Physician and patient. |
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History. |
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Physicians. |
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Greek World. |
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History of Medicine. |
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History, Ancient. |
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Philosophy, Medical -- history. |
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Physicians -- history. |
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Roman World. |
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Biography.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mattern, Susan P., 1966- Galen and the rhetoric of healing. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 9780801888359 (DLC) 2007044286 (OCoLC)180080697 |
| ISBN |
9780801896347 (electronic book) |
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0801896347 (electronic book) |
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9780801888359 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0801888352 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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