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Mental illness in ancient medicine : (Record no. 40493)

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LC control number 2017057527
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International Standard Book Number 9789004362260
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Standard number or code 10.1163/9789004362260
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Item number .M46 2018
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Subject category code MED039000
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Classification number 616.8900938
Edition information 23
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Mental illness in ancient medicine :
Remainder of title from Celsus to Paul of Aegina /
Statement of responsibility, etc. edited by Chiara Thumiger and P. N. Singer.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Leiden ;
-- Boston :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Brill,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice [2018]
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Extent 1 online resource (xv, 479 pages)
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Series statement Studies in ancient medicine,
International Standard Serial Number 0925-1421 ;
Volume/sequential designation v. 50
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Title Front Matter --
-- Copyright page --
-- Acknowledgments --
-- Primary Texts and Abbreviations --
-- Introduction. Disease Classification and Mental Illness: Ancient and Modern Perspectives /
Statement of responsibility Chiara Thumiger and P. N. Singer --
Title 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 /
Statement of responsibility George Kazantzidis --
Title “Not a Daimōn, but a Severe Illness”: Oribasius, Posidonius and Later Ancient Perspectives on Superhuman Agents Causing Disease /
Statement of responsibility Nadine Metzger --
Title Individual Authors and Themes --
-- Athenaeus of Attalia on the Psychological Causes of Bodily Health* /
Statement of responsibility Sean Coughlin --
Title Archigenes of Apamea’s Treatment of Mental Diseases* /
Statement of responsibility Orly Lewis --
Title Mental Perceptions and Pathology in the Work of Rufus of Ephesus /
Statement of responsibility Melinda Letts --
Title Mental Disorders and Psychological Suffering in Galen’s Cases* /
Statement of responsibility Julien Devinant --
Title Galen on Memory, Forgetting and Memory Loss* /
Statement of responsibility Ricardo Julião --
Title Stomachikon, Hydrophobia and Other Eating Disturbances: Volition and Taste in Late-Antique Medical Discussions* /
Statement of responsibility Chiara Thumiger --
Title “A Most Acute, Disgusting and Indecent Disease”: Satyriasis and Sexual Disorders in Ancient Medicine* /
Statement of responsibility Chiara Thumiger --
Title Mental Derangement in Methodist Nosography: What Caelius Aurelianus Had to Say /
Statement of responsibility Anna Maria Urso --
Title Mental Illnesses in the Medical Compilations of Late Antiquity: The Case of Aëtius of Amida* /
Statement of responsibility Ricarda Gäbel --
Title Philosophy and Mental Illness --
-- Making the Distinction: The Stoic View of Mental Illness /
Statement of responsibility Marke Ahonen --
Title Philosophical Psychological Therapy: Did It Have Any Impact on Medical Practice?* /
Statement of responsibility Christopher Gill --
Title Galen’s Pathological Soul: Diagnosis and Therapy in Ethical and Medical Texts and Contexts* /
Statement of responsibility P. N. Singer.
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Terms governing access Available to subscribing member institutions only.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Mental illness
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision To 1500.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Mental illness
General subdivision Treatment
-- History
Chronological subdivision To 1500.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Thumiger, Chiara.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Singer, P. N.
Fuller form of name (Peter N.),
Dates associated with a name 1962-
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Relationship information Online version:
Title Mental illness in ancient medicine.
Place, publisher, and date of publication Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
International Standard Book Number 9789004362260
Record control number (DLC) 2017059301
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Studies in Ancient Medicine
Volume/sequential designation 50.
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Uniform title Studies in Ancient Medicine Online, ISBN: 9789004380813.
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Public note DOI:
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004362260">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004362260</a>

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