Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought : (Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought (Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

From an archaic, unfamiliar and Greek-sounding disease described by the Hippocratics, 'phrenitis', to meningitis, stress syndrome and delirium: this book takes the reader on a journey through key phases of Western ideas about human physiology and mental health and reflects on loss and surv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Thumiger, Chiara, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press [2023]
Edición:First edition
Materias:
Mental illness > Europe > History.
Neurology > Europe > History.
Psychiatry > Europe > History.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009845418006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1 Preface and Methodological Issues
  • Chapter 2 Phrenitis in Classical (Fifth-Fourth Centuries BCE) and Hellenistic (Third-First Centuries BCE) Medicine
  • Chapter 3 Psychology and Delocalizing Themes: Asclepiades, Celsus and Caelius Aurelianus
  • Chapter 4 Theoretical Aspects of Imperial Nosology: Localization, Semiotics, Chronology, Aetiology (First-Sixth Centuries CE)
  • Chapter 5 Phrenitic People: Patients and Therapies in Imperial and Late-Antique Cultures (First-Sixth Centuries CE)
  • Chapter 6 Quasi phreneticus: Phrenitis in Non-Medical Sources in Imperial and Late-Antique Cultures (First Century BCE-Seventh Century CE)
  • Chapter 7 The Byzantine and Medieval Periods: Medical Receptions of phrenitis in Greek, Latin and Semitic Languages (Sixth-Fourteenth Centuries CF)
  • Chapter 8 The Construction of the Phrenitic in Larger Society: From the Medieval to the Early-Modern Period
  • Chapter 9 Phrenitis in the Modern and Early-Modern Worlds: Anatomy, Pathology and the Survival of Graeco-Roman Medicine (Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries CE)
  • Chapter 10 The Modern Age: The 'Death' of phrenitis
  • Appendix 1 The 'Sun Disease'
  • Appendix 2 Naming, Nomenclatures, Dictionaries
  • Appendix 3 Phrenitis from the Fifth Century BCE to the Twentieth Century CE: A Synoptic Table
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index.

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