| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 479 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Studies in ancient medicine ; volume 50
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Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 50.
0925-1421
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Between insanity and wisdom : perceptions of melancholy in the ps. -- Hippocratic letters 10-17 / George Kazantzidis -- "Not a daimon, but a severe illness" : Oribasius, Posidonius and later ancient perspectives on superhuman agents causing disease / Nadine Metzger -- 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 Gabel -- 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. |
| Summary |
Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina traces the history of conceptions of mental disorder in Graeco-Roman medical writings, from the 1st century BCE to the 7th CE, with detailed studies of all significant authors. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mental illness -- Treatment -- History -- To 1500.
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Mental illness -- Treatment. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Thumiger, Chiara, editor.
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Singer, P. N. (Peter N.), 1962- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mental illness in ancient medicine. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004362727 (DLC) 2017057527 (OCoLC)1011125267 |
| ISBN |
9789004362260 electronic book |
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9004362266 electronic book |
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9789004362727 hardcover alkaline paper |
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900436272X hardcover alkaline paper |
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