| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 479 pages) : illustrations. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Studies in Ancient Medicine, 0925-1421 ; Volume 50 |
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Studies in ancient medicine ; Volume 50.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Between insanity and wisdom : perceptions of melancholy in the ps. - Hippocratic letters / George Kazantzidis -- "Not a daimon, but a severe illness" : Oribasius, Posidonius and later ancient perspectives on superhuman agents causing disease / Nadine Metzger -- Athenaeus of Attalia on the psychological causes of bodily health / Sean Coughlin -- Archigenes of Apamea's treatment of mental diseases / Orly Lewis -- Mental perceptions and pathology in the work of Rufus of Ephesus / Melinda Letts -- Mental disorders and psychological suffering in Galen's Cases / Julien Devinant -- Galen on memory, forgetting and memory loss / Ricardo Juliao -- Stomachikon, hydrophobia and other eating disturbances : volition and taste in late-antique medical discussions / Chiara Thumiger -- "A most acute, disgusting and indecent disease" : satyriasis and sexual disorders in ancient medicine / Chiara Thumiger -- Mental derangement in methodist nosography : what Caelius Aurelianus had to say / Anna Maria Urso -- Mental illnesses in the medical compilations of late antiquity : the case of Aetius of Amida / Ricarda Gabel -- Making the distinction : the stoic view of mental illness / Marke Ahonen -- Philosophical psychological therapy : did it have any impact on medical practice? / Christopher Gill -- Galen's pathological soul : diagnosis and therapy in ethical and medical texts and contexts / P. N. Singer. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Thumiger, Chiara, editor.
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Singer, P. N. (Peter N.), 1962- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mental illness in ancient medicine : from Celsus to Paul of Aegina. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] xv, 479 pages Studies in ancient medicine ; Volume 50. 9789004362727 (DLC) 2017059301 |
| ISBN |
9789004362727 |
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9789004362260 (e-book) |
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