Medical understandings of emotions in antiquity : theory, practice, suffering : ancient emotions iii / edited by George Kazantzidis and Dimos Spatharas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kazantzidis, George, editor.

Spatharas, Dēmos G., editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 131.

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 131

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Health aspects.

Emotions.

Emotions--History--To 1500.

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Emotions Across Medicine and Philosophy

What is a Pathos? Where Medicine Meets Philosophy

Drugs and Psychotropic Words in Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen

Wonder and Perplexity across Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Greece

Part II: Emotions in the Medical Room

The Doctor’s Dilemma: Addressing Irrational Fears

Shame and Concealment in the Hippocratic Corpus

The Body to be Hidden: Shame and Ancient Medicine

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

Part III: Medico-philosophical Treatments of Emotion

Posidonius and the Pneumatists: The Aetiology of Emotions and Diseases

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

Disorders of the Soul: Emotions and Clinical Conditions in Galen

The Atlas Patient: Galen on Melancholia and Psychosis

List of Contributors

Index Rerum et Nominum

Index Auctorum Antiquorum et Locorum

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-077193-4