Holism in Ancient Medicine and Its Reception

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44308-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 53, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 894 g

Reihe: Studies in Ancient Medicine

This volume aims at exploring the ancient roots of ‘holistic’ approaches in the specific field of medicine and the life sciences, without, however, overlooking the larger theoretical implications of these discussions. Therefore, the project plans to broaden the perspective to include larger cultural discussions and, in a comparative spirit, reach out to some examples from non Graeco-Roman medical cultures. As such, it constitutes a fundamental contribution to history of medicine, philosophy of medicine, cultural studies, and ancient studies more broadly. The wide-ranging selection of chapters offers a comprehensive view of an exciting new field: the interrogation of ancient sources in the light of modern concepts in philosophy of medicine, as justification of the claim for their enduring relevance as object of study and, at the same time, as means to a more adequate contextualisation of modern debates within a long historical process.

Contributors are: Hynek Bartoš, Sean Coughlin, Elizabeth Craik, Brooke Holmes, Helen King, Giouli Korobili, David Leith, Vivian Nutton, Julius Rocca, William Michael Short, P. N. Singer, Konstantinos Stefou, Chiara Thumiger, Laurence Totelin, Claire Trenery, John Wee, Francis Zimmermann.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thumiger, Chiara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Chiara Thumiger

Part 1: Holism: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives

1 Holism, Parts, Wholes

Chiara Thumiger

2 Holism, Sympathy, and the Living Being in Ancient Greek Medicine and Philosophy

Brooke Holmes

3 ‘Holism’ in Cognitive Approaches to the Ancient Emotions

William Michael Short

Part 2: Is Graeco-Roman Medicine Holistic?

4 Hippocratic Holisms

Hynek Bartoš

5 Holism and the Methodists

David Leith

6 Is Graeco-Roman Medicine Holistic? Galen and Ancient Medical-Philosophical Debates

P. N. Singer

7 Holism of Body and Mind in Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy

Elizabeth Craik

8 Plato’s Charmides on Philosophy as Holistic Medical Practice

Giouli Korobili and Konstantinos Stefou

9 A Woman in Flux: Fluidity in Hippocratic Gynaecology

Laurence M. V. Totelin

10 Cohesive Causes in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Medicine

Sean Coughlin

11 Pneuma as a Holistic Concept in Galen

Julius Rocca

Part 3: Medical Holism beyond the Graeco-Roman World

12 Humoralism in Ayurvedic Medicine

Francis Zimmermann

13 A Systemic Etiology of Sicknesses from Ancient Iraq: Organ Systems and the Functional Holism of the Babylonian Body

John Z. Wee

14 Epidemic Disease in a Humoral Environment: From Airs, Waters and Places to the Renaissance

Vivian Nutton

15 Mind-Body Interaction: The Influence of Ancient Ideas in Twelfth-Century England

Claire Trenery

16 ‘Treating the Patient, Not Just the Disease’: Reading Ancient Medicine in Modern Holistic Medicine

Helen King

Index Rerum

Index Locorum

Index Nominum

Über Autor(innen)

Chiara Thumiger, Ph.D. (2004), Habil. (2017) is a Research Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence Roots at Kiel University. She is a classicist and historian of medicine. She has worked on a variety of medical themes and authors from the Hippocratic Corpus to the late-antique world and beyond – most recently on the ancient disease phrenitis. She has also published on tragedy, ancient animals and history of emotions.