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886909
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Mental illness in ancient medicine : : from Celsus to Paul of Aegina /\ edited by Chiara Thumiger and P.N. Singer.
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| Publication Statement
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Leiden ;Boston :: Brill,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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Studies in ancient medicine ;; volume 50
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1 online resource (xv, 479 pages).
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9004362266
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: 9789004362260
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900436272X
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9789004362727
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Contents
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Between insanity and wisdom : perceptions of melancholy in the ps. -- Hippocratic letters 10-17 / 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 Julião -- 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 Aëtius 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.
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| Abstract
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Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina traces the history of conceptions of mental disorder in Graeco-Roman medical writings, from the 1st century BCE to the 7th CE, with detailed studies of all significant authors.
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Mental illness-- Treatment-- History-- To 1500.
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HEALTH FITNESS / Diseases / General
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MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine
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MEDICAL / Diseases
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MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine
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MEDICAL / Internal Medicine
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Mental illness-- Treatment.
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Mental Disorders-- history.
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Mental Disorders-- therapy.
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History, Ancient.
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| Dewey Classification
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616.8900938
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RC438.M46 2018
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W1ST918K v.50 2018
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WM 11.1
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Singer, P. N., (Peter N.),1962-
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Thumiger, Chiara
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