Mental illness in ancient medicine : from Celsus to Paul of Aegina /
Mental illness in ancient medicine : from Celsus to Paul of Aegina /
edited by Chiara Thumiger and P. N. Singer.
- 1 online resource (xv, 479 pages)
- Studies in ancient medicine, v. 50 0925-1421 ; .
- Studies in Ancient Medicine 50. Studies in Ancient Medicine Online, ISBN: 9789004380813. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Primary Texts and Abbreviations -- Introduction. Disease Classification and Mental Illness: Ancient and Modern Perspectives / Broader Reflections on Mental Illness: Medical Theories in Their Socio-intellectual Context -- Between Insanity and Wisdom: Perceptions of Melancholy in the Ps.-Hippocratic Letters 10–17 / “Not a Daimōn, but a Severe Illness”: Oribasius, Posidonius and Later Ancient Perspectives on Superhuman Agents Causing Disease / Individual Authors and Themes -- Athenaeus of Attalia on the Psychological Causes of Bodily Health* / Archigenes of Apamea’s Treatment of Mental Diseases* / Mental Perceptions and Pathology in the Work of Rufus of Ephesus / Mental Disorders and Psychological Suffering in Galen’s Cases* / Galen on Memory, Forgetting and Memory Loss* / Stomachikon, Hydrophobia and Other Eating Disturbances: Volition and Taste in Late-Antique Medical Discussions* / “A Most Acute, Disgusting and Indecent Disease”: Satyriasis and Sexual Disorders in Ancient Medicine* / Mental Derangement in Methodist Nosography: What Caelius Aurelianus Had to Say / Mental Illnesses in the Medical Compilations of Late Antiquity: The Case of Aëtius of Amida* / Philosophy and Mental Illness -- Making the Distinction: The Stoic View of Mental Illness / Philosophical Psychological Therapy: Did It Have Any Impact on Medical Practice?* / Galen’s Pathological Soul: Diagnosis and Therapy in Ethical and Medical Texts and Contexts* / Chiara Thumiger and P. N. Singer -- George Kazantzidis -- Nadine Metzger -- Sean Coughlin -- Orly Lewis -- Melinda Letts -- Julien Devinant -- Ricardo Julião -- Chiara Thumiger -- Chiara Thumiger -- Anna Maria Urso -- Ricarda Gäbel -- Marke Ahonen -- Christopher Gill -- P. N. Singer.
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In Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina a detailed account is given, by a range of experts in the field, of the development of different conceptualizations of the mind and its pathology by medical authors from the beginning of the imperial period to the seventh century CE. New analysis is offered, both of the dominant texts of Galen and of such important but neglected figures as Rufus, Archigenes, Athenaeus of Attalia, Aretaeus, Caelius Aurelianus and the Byzantine 'compilers'. The work of these authors is considered both in its medical-historical context and in relation to philosophical and theological debates - on ethics and on the nature of the soul - with which they interacted.
9789004362260
10.1163/9789004362260 DOI
2017057527
Mental illness--History--To 1500.
Mental illness--Treatment--History--To 1500.
RC438 / .M46 2018
616.8900938
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Primary Texts and Abbreviations -- Introduction. Disease Classification and Mental Illness: Ancient and Modern Perspectives / Broader Reflections on Mental Illness: Medical Theories in Their Socio-intellectual Context -- Between Insanity and Wisdom: Perceptions of Melancholy in the Ps.-Hippocratic Letters 10–17 / “Not a Daimōn, but a Severe Illness”: Oribasius, Posidonius and Later Ancient Perspectives on Superhuman Agents Causing Disease / Individual Authors and Themes -- Athenaeus of Attalia on the Psychological Causes of Bodily Health* / Archigenes of Apamea’s Treatment of Mental Diseases* / Mental Perceptions and Pathology in the Work of Rufus of Ephesus / Mental Disorders and Psychological Suffering in Galen’s Cases* / Galen on Memory, Forgetting and Memory Loss* / Stomachikon, Hydrophobia and Other Eating Disturbances: Volition and Taste in Late-Antique Medical Discussions* / “A Most Acute, Disgusting and Indecent Disease”: Satyriasis and Sexual Disorders in Ancient Medicine* / Mental Derangement in Methodist Nosography: What Caelius Aurelianus Had to Say / Mental Illnesses in the Medical Compilations of Late Antiquity: The Case of Aëtius of Amida* / Philosophy and Mental Illness -- Making the Distinction: The Stoic View of Mental Illness / Philosophical Psychological Therapy: Did It Have Any Impact on Medical Practice?* / Galen’s Pathological Soul: Diagnosis and Therapy in Ethical and Medical Texts and Contexts* / Chiara Thumiger and P. N. Singer -- George Kazantzidis -- Nadine Metzger -- Sean Coughlin -- Orly Lewis -- Melinda Letts -- Julien Devinant -- Ricardo Julião -- Chiara Thumiger -- Chiara Thumiger -- Anna Maria Urso -- Ricarda Gäbel -- Marke Ahonen -- Christopher Gill -- P. N. Singer.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
In Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina a detailed account is given, by a range of experts in the field, of the development of different conceptualizations of the mind and its pathology by medical authors from the beginning of the imperial period to the seventh century CE. New analysis is offered, both of the dominant texts of Galen and of such important but neglected figures as Rufus, Archigenes, Athenaeus of Attalia, Aretaeus, Caelius Aurelianus and the Byzantine 'compilers'. The work of these authors is considered both in its medical-historical context and in relation to philosophical and theological debates - on ethics and on the nature of the soul - with which they interacted.
9789004362260
10.1163/9789004362260 DOI
2017057527
Mental illness--History--To 1500.
Mental illness--Treatment--History--To 1500.
RC438 / .M46 2018
616.8900938