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 surv...

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.