Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity: Theory, Practice, Suffering. Ancient Emotions III

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity

Theory, Practice, Suffering. Ancient Emotions III

Edited by: George Kazantzidis and Dimos Spatharas

Volume 131 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110771930

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This volume focuses on the under-explored topic of emotions' implications for ancient medical theory and practice, while it also raises questions about patients' sentiments. Ancient medicine, along with philosophy, offer unique windows to professional and scientific explanatory models of emotions. Thus, the contributions included in this volume offer comparative ground that helps readers and researchers interested in ancient emotions pin down possible interfaces and differences between systematic and lay cultural understandings of emotions. Although the volume emphasizes the multifaceted links between medicine and ancient philosophical thinking, especially ethics, it also pays due attention to the representation of patients' feelings in the extant medical treatises and doctors' emotional reticence. The chapters that constitute this volume investigate a great range of medical writers including Hippocrates and the Hippocratics, and Galen, while comparative approaches to medical writings and philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, dwell on the notion of wonder/admiration (thauma), conceptualizations of the body and the soul, and the category pathos itself. The volume also sheds light on the metaphorical uses of medicine in ancient thinking.

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G. Kazantzidis, Univ. of Patras, Patras, Greece; D. Spatharas, Univ. of Crete, Rethymno, Greece.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction George Kazantzidis and Dimos Spatharas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Emotions Across Medicine and Philosophy
What is a Pathos? Where Medicine Meets Philosophy Peter N. Singer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Drugs and Psychotropic Words in Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen Dimos Spatharas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Wonder and Perplexity across Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Greece Spyridon Rangos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Part II: Emotions in the Medical Room
The Doctor’s Dilemma: Addressing Irrational Fears Elizabeth Craik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Shame and Concealment in the Hippocratic Corpus Jennifer Kosak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
The Body to be Hidden: Shame and Ancient Medicine Chiara Thumiger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Reading and Misreading Medical Emotions: Some Cases of Female Patients in the Hippocratic Epidemics George Kazantzidis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Part III: Medico-philosophical Treatments of Emotion
Posidonius and the Pneumatists: The Aetiology of Emotions and Diseases Teun Tieleman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Galen on Non-Rational Motivation and the Freedom from Emotions: A Reading of Affections of the Soul David Kaufman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Disorders of the Soul: Emotions and Clinical Conditions in Galen Julien Devinant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
The Atlas Patient: Galen on Melancholia and Psychosis Susan P. Mattern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Index Rerum et Nominum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Index Auctorum Antiquorum et Locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Classicists, Historians of Medicine, Historians of Emotions, Philosophers, Psychologists and Psychiatrists
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 298
Keywords: Medicine; Emotions; Antiquity; Philosophy

eBook

Published: June 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110771930

Hardcover

Published: June 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110771893

Paperback

Planned Publication: June 17, 2024
ISBN: 9783111534336