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Galen and the rhetoric of healing / Susan P. Mattern.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mattern, Susan P., 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Galen.
- Medicine, Greek and Roman.
- Physician and patient--History.
- Physician and patient.
- Physicians.
- History.
- Greek World.
- History of Medicine.
- History, Ancient.
- Philosophy, Medical--history.
- Physicians--history.
- Roman World.
- Medical Subjects:
- Physicians.
- Greek World.
- History of Medicine.
- History, Ancient.
- Philosophy, Medical--history.
- Physicians--history.
- Roman World.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 279 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- 1 The Stories in Context 1
- I Society and Culture 2
- Galen's Life 2
- Diseases and Death in Rome 4
- Galen and Greek Culture 7
- Galen's Corpus 11
- Galen's Audience: "Friends and Companions" 14
- Professionalism and Social Status 21
- II Narrative and Medicine 27
- Hippocratic Case Histories 28
- Case Histories after the Hippocratic Corpus 31
- Inscriptions and the Cult of Asclepius 36
- Written Tradition and Clinical Experience 37
- Case Histories in Galen's Work 40
- Memory and Autobiography 43
- 2 Place and Time 48
- I Context and Authenticity 48
- II Place 49
- City 49
- Country 53
- Houses 56
- III Time 60
- Medical Time 62
- Time and Narrative Structure 65
- 3 The Contest: Rivals, Spectators, and Judges 69
- I Agon 69
- II Rivals 72
- Other Physicians 72
- Confrontation 74
- Demonstrating Superiority 76
- Witness and Judge 80
- The Addressee 83
- Friends 84
- Rivals and Patients 87
- Family and Household 88
- Husbands, Fathers, and Masters 90
- IV Failure 92
- V Case History and Healing Narrative 95
- 4 The Patient 98
- I Presenting the Patient 99
- Names and Terms 99
- Temperament and Constitution 102
- Age 105
- Sex: Female Patients 112
- Social Information 115
- II The Patient as Character 119
- The Patient's Perspective 119
- The Patient's Lifestyle 126
- Character and Emotion 132
- 5 Physician and Patient 138
- I The Physician's Perspective: "I" and "We" 138
- II Physician and Patient 140
- Intimacy 140
- Obedience 145
- Perceiving the Patient 149
- III Fever 155
- Appendix A Works Cited from Galen's Corpus 163.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801888359
- 0801888352
- OCLC:
- 180080697
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- Publisher description
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