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" Galen and the rhetoric of healing / "
Susan P. Mattern
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BL
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635080
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Mattern, Susan P.,1966-
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Galen and the rhetoric of healing /\ Susan P. Mattern
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x, 279 pages ;; 24 cm
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9780801888359 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 0801888352 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-268) and index
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The stories in context -- Society and culture. Galen's life ; Diseases and death in Rome ; Galen and Greek culture ; Galen's corpus ; Galen's audience : "friends and companions" ; Professionalism and social status -- Narrative and medicine. Hippocratic case histories ; Case histories after the Hippocratic corpus ; Inscriptions and the Cult of Asclepius ; Written tradition and clinical experience ; Case histories in Galen's work ; Memory and autobiography -- Place and time -- Context and authenticity -- Place. City ; Country ; Houses -- Time. Chronology ; Medical time ; Time and narrative structure -- The contest : rivals, specators, and judges -- Agon -- Rivals. Other physicians ; Confrontation ; Demonstrating superiority -- Audience. Witness and judge ; The addressee ; Friends ; Rivals and patients ; Family and household ; Husbands, fathers, and masters -- Failure -- Case history and healing narrative -- The patient -- Presenting the patient. Names and terms ; Temperament and constitution ; Age ; Sex : female patients ; Social information ; Conclusion -- The patient as character. The patient's perspective ; The patient's lifestyle ; Character and emotion ; Conclusion -- Physician and patient -- The physician's perspective : "I" and "we" -- Physician and patient. Intimacy ; Obedience ; Perceiving the patient -- Fever -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Works cited from Galen's corpus -- Appendix B. Table of cases
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Galen
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Medicine, Greek and Roman
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Physician and patient-- History
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Physicians
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Greek World
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History of Medicine
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History, Ancient
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Philosophy, Medical-- history
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Physicians-- history
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Roman World
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| Dewey Classification
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610.938
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R126.G8M38 2008
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2008 L-345
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WZ 100G1534MA 2008
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