Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought : : (Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) / / Chiara Thumiger.

• VerfasserIn: Thumiger, Chiara,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, England : : Cambridge University Press,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (460 pages)

From an archaic, unfamiliar and Greek-sounding disease described by the Hippocratics, 'phrenitis', to meningitis, stress syndrome and delirium: this book takes the reader on a journey through key phases of Western ideas about human physiology and mental health and reflects on loss and survival in the history of disease.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Preface and Methodological Issues -- Chapter 2 Phrenitis in Classical (Fifth-Fourth Centuries BCE) and Hellenistic (Third-First Centuries BCE) Medicine -- Chapter 3 Psychology and Delocalizing Themes: Asclepiades, Celsus and Caelius Aurelianus -- Chapter 4 Theoretical Aspects of Imperial Nosology: Localization, Semiotics, Chronology, Aetiology (First-Sixth Centuries CE) -- Chapter 5 Phrenitic People: Patients and Therapies in Imperial and Late-Antique Cultures (First-Sixth Centuries CE) -- Chapter 6 Quasi phreneticus: Phrenitis in Non-Medical Sources in Imperial and Late-Antique Cultures (First Century BCE-Seventh Century CE) -- Chapter 7 The Byzantine and Medieval Periods: Medical Receptions of phrenitis in Greek, Latin and Semitic Languages (Sixth-Fourteenth Centuries CF) -- Chapter 8 The Construction of the Phrenitic in Larger Society: From the Medieval to the Early-Modern Period -- Chapter 9 Phrenitis in the Modern and Early-Modern Worlds: Anatomy, Pathology and the Survival of Graeco-Roman Medicine (Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries CE) -- Chapter 10 The Modern Age: The 'Death' of phrenitis -- Appendix 1 The 'Sun Disease' -- Appendix 2 Naming, Nomenclatures, Dictionaries -- Appendix 3 Phrenitis from the Fifth Century BCE to the Twentieth Century CE: A Synoptic Table -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index.