Emotional Contagion : The Aristotelian Compassio in Medieval Medicine and Philosophy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delaurenti, Béatrice.

Series:

Artes Liberales Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Compassion.

Sympathy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This book addresses a universal problem: the transmission of psycho-physiological reactions from one person to another, and illuminates the twofold enigma, that of the trajectory of the term compassio, and that of explaining the phenomenon it denoted.

Contents:

Front matter

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I: The Aristotelian Problemata physica: A melting-pot for ideas of emotional contagion

Book 7 of the Problemata: A guiding thread

Distant suffering

Contagious yawning

The shiver or shudder of compassio

The transmission of diseases

Midway conclusion

Part II: Other fields and sources, similarities and contrasts

Compassion and mercy in theology and pastoral ministry

Medical sources: Galen and Avicenna

Compassio at the Salerno Medical School (1150-1200)

Compassio in scholastic medicine (1): Gentile da Foligno and Tommaso del Garbo

Compassio in scholastic medicine (2): Jacopo da Forlì, Ugo Benzi, and Jerome Torrella

Compassio in natural philosophy

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

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ISBN:

1-5261-6887-1

1-5261-6889-8

9781526168870

OCLC:

1574895518