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Title Homo patiens : approaches to the patient in the ancient world / edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
©2016

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Series Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; volume 45
Studies in ancient medicine ; volume 45. 0925-1421
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Notes on the Contributors; Bibliographical Note; Introduction: Towards a History of the AncientPatient's View; Part 1 Medical Authority and Patient Perspectives; Chapter 1 "This I Suffered in the Short Space of my Life". The Epitaph for Lucius Minicius Anthimianus (CIG 3272; Peek GV 1166); Chapter 2 Questioning the Patient, Questioning Hippocrates: Rufus of Ephesus and the Pursuit of Knowledge; Part 2 Case Histories in the Hippocratic Corpus; Chapter 3 Patient Function and Physician Function in the Hippocratic Cases
Chapter 4 Case History as Minority Report in the Hippocratic Epidemics 1Chapter 5 Voice Pathologies and the 'Hippocratic Triangle'; Part 3 Patients and Psychological Illness; Chapter 6 Galen's Anxious Patients: Lypē as Anxiety Disorder; Chapter 7 Experiencing Madness: Mental Patients in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Medicine; Part 4 Emotional Aspects of the Patient-Physician Relation; Chapter 8 Interpretations of the Healer's Touch in the Hippocratic Corpus; Chapter 9 Patience for the Little Patient: The Infant in Soranus' Gynaecia
Chapter 10 Compassion in Soranus' Gynecology and Caelius Aurelianus' On Chronic DiseasesChapter 11 Galen on the Patient's Role in Pain Diagnosis: Sensation, Consensus, and Metaphor; Part 5 Material Aspects, Diagnostic Techniques and their Impact on the Patient-Physician Relationship; Chapter 12 The Μισθάριον in the Praecepta: The Medical Fee and its Impact on the Patient; Chapter 13 The Practical Application of Ancient Pulse-Lore and its Influence on the Patient-Doctor Interaction; Chapter 14 Images of Doctors and their Implements: A Visual Dialogue between the Patient and the Doctor
Chapter 15 Case Histories in Late Byzantium: Reading the Patient in John Zacharias Aktouarios' On UrinesPart 6 The Informed Patient: Self-Healing and the Patient as Physician; Chapter 16 Treatment of the Man: Galen's Preventive Medicine in the De Sanitate Tuenda; Chapter 17 Literary and Documentary Evidence for Lay Medical Practice in the Roman Republic and Empire; Chapter 18 Aelius Aristides as Informed Patient and Physician; Chapter 19 "It may not cure you, it may not save your life, but it will help you"; Epilogue
Chapter 20 Approaches to the History of Patients: From the Ancient World to Early Modern EuropeIndex Locorum; Index Rerum
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Subject Physician and patient -- History.
Physician and patient.
History.
Medicine, Ancient.
Medicine, Ancient.
Medical ethics -- History.
Medical ethics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Petridou, Georgia, editor.
Thumiger, Chiara, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Homo patiens 9789004305557 (DLC) 2015032061 (OCoLC)926623417
ISBN 9789004305564 electronic book
9004305564 electronic book
9789004305557
9004305556