Homo patiens : : approaches to the patient in the ancient world / / edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger.

• Superior document: Studies in ancient medicine, volume 45
• TeilnehmendeR: Petridou, Georgia,; Thumiger, Chiara,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 45.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (564 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Homo Patiens - Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World is a book about the patients of the Graeco-Roman world, their role in the ancient medical encounters and their relationship to the health providers and medical practitioners of their time. This volume makes a strong claim for the relevance of a patient-centred approach to the history of ancient medicine. Attention to the experience of patients deepens our understanding of ancient societies and their medical markets, and enriches our knowledge of the history of ancient cultures. It is a first step towards shaping a history of the ancient patient’s view, which will be of use not only to ancient historians, students of medical humanities, and historians of medicine, but also to any reader interested in medical ethics.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Towards a History of the Ancient Patient’s View / Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger -- 1 “This I Suffered in the Short Space of my Life”. The Epitaph for Lucius Minicius Anthimianus (cig 3272; Peek gv 1166) / Lutz A. Graumann and Manfred Horstmanshoff -- 2 Questioning the Patient, Questioning Hippocrates: Rufus of Ephesus and the Pursuit of Knowledge / Melinda Letts -- 3 Patient Function and Physician Function in the Hippocratic Cases / Chiara Thumiger -- 4 Case History as Minority Report in the Hippocratic Epidemics 1 / John Z. Wee -- 5 Voice Pathologies and the ‘Hippocratic Triangle’ / Colin Webster -- 6 Galen’s Anxious Patients: Lypē as Anxiety Disorder / Susan P. Mattern -- 7 Experiencing Madness: Mental Patients in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Medicine / Pauline Koetschet -- 8 Interpretations of the Healer’s Touch in the Hippocratic Corpus / Jennifer Kosak -- 9 Patience for the Little Patient: The Infant in Soranus’ Gynaecia / Lesley Bolton -- 10 Compassion in Soranus’ Gynecology and Caelius Aurelianus’ On Chronic Diseases / Amber J. Porter -- 11 Galen on the Patient’s Role in Pain Diagnosis: Sensation, Consensus, and Metaphor / Courtney Roby -- 12 The Μισθάριον in the Praecepta: The Medical Fee and its Impact on the Patient / Giulia Ecca -- 13 The Practical Application of Ancient Pulse-Lore and its Influence on the Patient-Doctor Interaction / Orly Lewis -- 14 Images of Doctors and their Implements: A Visual Dialogue between the Patient and the Doctor / Patricia A. Baker -- 15 Case Histories in Late Byzantium: Reading the Patient in John Zacharias Aktouarios’ On Urines / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos -- 16 Treatment of the Man: Galen’s Preventive Medicine in the De Sanitate Tuenda / John M. Wilkins -- 17 Literary and Documentary Evidence for Lay Medical Practice in the Roman Republic and Empire / Jane Draycott -- 18 Aelius Aristides as Informed Patient and Physician / Georgia Petridou -- 19 “It may not cure you, it may not save your life, but it will help you” / Katherine D. van Schaik -- 20 Epilogue: Approaches to the History of Patients: From the Ancient World to Early Modern Europe / Michael Stolberg -- Index locorum -- Index rerum.