Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Emotions Across Medicine and Philosophy
6. What is a Pathos? Where Medicine Meets Philosophy 17
7. Drugs and Psychotropic Words in Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen 43
8. Wonder and Perplexity across Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Greece 59
9. Part II: Emotions in the Medical Room
10. The Doctor’s Dilemma: Addressing Irrational Fears 117
11. Shame and Concealment in the Hippocratic Corpus 123
12. The Body to be Hidden: Shame and Ancient Medicine 145
13. Reading and Misreading Medical Emotions: Some Cases of Female Patients in the Hippocratic Epidemics 173
14. Part III: Medico-philosophical Treatments of Emotion
15. Posidonius and the Pneumatists: The Aetiology of Emotions and Diseases 201
16. Galen on Non-Rational Motivation and the Freedom from Emotions: A Reading of Affections of the Soul 229
17. Disorders of the Soul: Emotions and Clinical Conditions in Galen 247
18. The Atlas Patient: Galen on Melancholia and Psychosis 271
19. List of Contributors 287
20. Index Rerum et Nominum 289
21. Index Auctorum Antiquorum et Locorum 295