Homo patiens : : approaches to the patient in the ancient world / / edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger.
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 relevanc...
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| Superior document: | Studies in ancient medicine, volume 45 |
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| 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. |
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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.