Holism in ancient medicine and its reception / edited by Chiara Thumiger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thumiger, Chiara, editor.

Series:

Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 53.

Studies in ancient medicine, 09251421 ; 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holistic medicine.

Medicine--History.

Medicine.

History.

History of Medicine.

Medical Subjects:

History of Medicine.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 447 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

"This volume aims at exploring the ancient roots of 'holistic' approaches in the specific field of medicine and the life sciences, without however overlooking the larger theoretical implications of these discussions. Therefore, the project plans to broaden the perspective to include larger cultural discussions and, in a comparative spirit, reach out to some examples from non Graeco-Roman medical cultures. As such, it constitutes a fundamental contribution to history of medicine, philosophy of medicine, cultural studies, and ancient studies more broadly. The wide-ranging selection of chapters offers a comprehensive view of an exciting new field: the interrogation of ancient sources in the light of modern concepts in philosophy of medicine, as justification of the claim for their enduring relevance as object of study and, at the same time, as means to a more adequate contextualisation of modern debates within a long historical process"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Chiara Thumiger

Part 1. Holism : methodological and theoretical perspectives. 1. Holism, parts, wholes / Chiara Thumiger

2. Holism, sympathy, and the living being in ancient Greek medicine and philosophy / Brooke Holmes

3. 'Holism' in cognitive approaches to the ancient emotions / William Michael Short

Part 2. Is Graeco-Roman medicine holistic? 4. Hippocratic holisms / Hynek Bartos

5. Holism and the Methodists / David Leith

6. Is Graeco-Roman medicine holistic? Galen and ancient medical-philosophical debates / P. N. Singer

7. Holism of body and mind in Hippocratic medicine and Greek tragedy / Elizabeth Craik

8. Plato's Charmides on philosophy as holistic medical practice / Giouli Korobili and Konstantinos Stefou

9. A woman in flux : fluidity in Hippocratic gynaecology / Laurence M. V. Totelin

10. Cohesive causes in ancient Greek philosophy and medicine / Sean Coughlin

11. Pneuma as a holistic concept in Galen / Julius Rocca

Part 3. Medical holism beyond the Graeco-Roman world. 12. Humoralism in Ayurvedic medicine / Francis Zimmermann

13. A systematic etiology of sicknesses from ancient Iraq : organ systems and the functional holism of the Babylonian body / John Z. Wee

14. Epidemic disease in a humoral environment : from Airs, Waters and Places to the Renaissance / Vivian Nutton

15. Mind-body interaction : the influence of ancient ideas in twelfth-century England / Claire Trenery

16. 'Treating the patient, not just the disease' : reading ancient medicine in modern holistic medicine / Helen King.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Holism in ancient medicine and its reception

ISBN:

9789004443082

9004443088

OCLC:

1193558180

Publisher Number:

16864885