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Title Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece : from antiquity to the present / edited by Steven M. Oberhelman.

Publication Info. Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern era. Medicine is here defined in a wider sense than just formal medical praxis, and includes non-formal medical healing methods such as folk pharmacopeia, religion, 'magical' methods (e.g., amulets, exorcisms, and spells), and home remedies. This volume examines how in Greek culture dreams have played an integral part in formal and non-formal means of healing. The papers are organized into three major diachronic periods: classical Greek through late Roman, the Byzantine era, and.
Contents Pt. 1. Antiquity -- pt. 2. Byzantium -- pt. 3. The post-Byzantine period to the current day.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Medicine, Ancient.
Medicine, Ancient.
Medicine -- Greece.
Medicine.
Greece.
Medical innovations -- History.
Medical innovations.
History.
Grekland.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Oberhelman, Steven M., editor.
Other Form: Print version: Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece. Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2013] 9781409424239 (DLC) 2012034182 (OCoLC)809562461
ISBN 9781409424246 (electronic book)
1409424243 (electronic book)
9781409424239
1409424235