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Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity

Theory, Practice, Suffering. Ancient Emotions III
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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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"Diese dichte, thematisch fokussierte Beitragssammlung trägt wesentlich zur laufenden Diskussion historischer wie auch aktueller Bedeutung des panbiologischen Phänomens von Emotionen bei. [...] Indes sind gerade in einem derart spannungsgeladenen Diskurs im Zusammenhang mit der gegenwärtigen intra- und interprofessionellen Reflexion von Emotionen in der gesamten Medizin die Beiträge dieses Bandes eben nicht nur für ein an soziokultureller Emotionsgeschichte, sondern auch für ein fachmedizinisch interessiertes Publikum als Anregung und Einstieg unbedingt zu empfehlen." Lutz Alexander Graumann in: https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-133043 (28.05.2024)

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    Frontmatter

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    Preface

    VII
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    Contents

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    Introduction

    1
    George Kazantzidis and Dimos Spatharas
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  • Part I: Emotions Across Medicine and Philosophy
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    What is a Pathos? Where Medicine Meets Philosophy

    17
    Peter N. Singer
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    Drugs and Psychotropic Words in Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen

    43
    Dimos Spatharas
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    Wonder and Perplexity across Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Greece

    59
    Spyridon Rangos
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  • Part II: Emotions in the Medical Room
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    The Doctor’s Dilemma: Addressing Irrational Fears

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    Elizabeth Craik
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    Shame and Concealment in the Hippocratic Corpus

    123
    Jennifer Kosak
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    The Body to be Hidden: Shame and Ancient Medicine

    145
    Chiara Thumiger
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    Reading and Misreading Medical Emotions: Some Cases of Female Patients in the Hippocratic Epidemics

    173
    George Kazantzidis
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  • Part III: Medico-philosophical Treatments of Emotion
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    Posidonius and the Pneumatists: The Aetiology of Emotions and Diseases

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    Teun Tieleman
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    Galen on Non-Rational Motivation and the Freedom from Emotions: A Reading of Affections of the Soul

    229
    David Kaufman
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    Disorders of the Soul: Emotions and Clinical Conditions in Galen

    247
    Julien Devinant
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    The Atlas Patient: Galen on Melancholia and Psychosis

    271
    Susan P. Mattern
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    List of Contributors

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    Index Rerum et Nominum

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    Index Auctorum Antiquorum et Locorum

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eBook published on:
June 21, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9783110771930
Hardcover published on:
June 21, 2022
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110771893
Paperback published on:
June 17, 2024
Paperback ISBN:
9783111534336
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298
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110771930
eBook ISBN: 9783110771930
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110771893
Paperback ISBN: 9783111534336
Keywords for this book
Medicine; Emotions; Antiquity; Philosophy
Audience(s) for this book
Classicists, Historians of Medicine, Historians of Emotions, Philosophers, Psychologists and Psychiatrists
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