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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):
- Medicine, Greek and Roman.
- Physician and patient--History.
- Physician and patient.
- Galen.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examining his professional interactions in the context of the world in which he lived and practiced, Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing provides a fresh perspective on a foundational figure in medicine and valuable insight into how doctors thought about their patients and their practice in the ancient world.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The Stories in Context
- I. SOCIETY AND CULTURE
- Galen's Life
- Diseases and Death in Rome
- Galen and Greek Culture
- Galen's Corpus
- Galen's Audience: "Friends and Companions"
- Professionalism and Social Status
- II. NARRATIVE AND MEDICINE
- Hippocratic Case Histories
- Case Histories after the Hippocratic Corpus
- Inscriptions and the Cult of Asclepius
- Written Tradition and Clinical Experience
- Case Histories in Galen's Work
- Memory and Autobiography
- 2 Place and Time
- I. CONTEXT AND AUTHENTICITY
- II. PLACE
- City
- Country
- Houses
- III. TIME
- Chronology
- Medical Time
- Time and Narrative Structure
- 3 The Contest: Rivals, Spectators, and Judges
- I. AGON
- II. RIVALS
- Other Physicians
- Confrontation
- Demonstrating Superiority
- III. AUDIENCE
- Witness and Judge
- The Addressee
- Friends
- Rivals and Patients
- Family and Household
- Husbands, Fathers, and Masters
- IV. FAILURE
- V. CASE HISTORY AND HEALING NARRATIVE
- 4 The Patient
- I. PRESENTING THE PATIENT
- Names and Terms
- Temperament and Constitution
- Age
- Sex: Female Patients
- Social Information
- Conclusion
- II. THE PATIENT AS CHARACTER
- The Patient's Perspective
- The Patient's Lifestyle
- Character and Emotion
- 5 Physician and Patient
- I. THE PHYSICIAN'S PERSPECTIVE: "I" AND "WE"
- II. PHYSICIAN AND PATIENT
- Intimacy
- Obedience
- Perceiving the Patient
- III. FEVER
- 6 Conclusion
- Appendix A: Works Cited from Galen's Corpus
- Appendix B: Table of Cases
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9634-7
- OCLC:
- 547580551
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