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Book SynopsisThis volume aims at exploring the ancient roots of ‘holistic’ approaches in the specific field of medicine and the life sciences, without, however, overlooking the larger theoretical implications of these discussions. Therefore, the project plans to broaden the perspective to include larger cultural discussions and, in a comparative spirit, reach out to some examples from non Graeco-Roman medical cultures. As such, it constitutes a fundamental contribution to history of medicine, philosophy of medicine, cultural studies, and ancient studies more broadly. The wide-ranging selection of chapters offers a comprehensive view of an exciting new field: the interrogation of ancient sources in the light of modern concepts in philosophy of medicine, as justification of the claim for their enduring relevance as object of study and, at the same time, as means to a more adequate contextualisation of modern debates within a long historical process. Contributors are: Hynek Bartoš, Sean Coughlin, Elizabeth Craik, Brooke Holmes, Helen King, Giouli Korobili, David Leith, Vivian Nutton, Julius Rocca, William Michael Short, P. N. Singer, Konstantinos Stefou, Chiara Thumiger, Laurence Totelin, Claire Trenery, John Wee, Francis Zimmermann.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction Chiara Thumiger Part 1: Holism: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives 1 Holism, Parts, Wholes Chiara Thumiger 2 Holism, Sympathy, and the Living Being in Ancient Greek Medicine and Philosophy Brooke Holmes 3 ‘Holism’ in Cognitive Approaches to the Ancient Emotions William Michael Short Part 2: Is Graeco-Roman Medicine Holistic? 4 Hippocratic Holisms Hynek Bartoš 5 Holism and the Methodists David Leith 6 Is Graeco-Roman Medicine Holistic? Galen and Ancient Medical-Philosophical Debates P. N. Singer 7 Holism of Body and Mind in Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy Elizabeth Craik 8 Plato’s Charmides on Philosophy as Holistic Medical Practice Giouli Korobili and Konstantinos Stefou 9 A Woman in Flux: Fluidity in Hippocratic Gynaecology Laurence M. V. Totelin 10 Cohesive Causes in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Medicine Sean Coughlin 11 Pneuma as a Holistic Concept in Galen Julius Rocca Part 3: Medical Holism beyond the Graeco-Roman World 12 Humoralism in Āyurvedic Medicine Francis Zimmermann 13 A Systemic Etiology of Sicknesses from Ancient Iraq: Organ Systems and the Functional Holism of the Babylonian Body John Z. Wee 14 Epidemic Disease in a Humoral Environment: From Airs, Waters and Places to the Renaissance Vivian Nutton 15 Mind-Body Interaction: The Influence of Ancient Ideas in Twelfth-Century England Claire Trenery 16 ‘Treating the Patient, Not Just the Disease’: Reading Ancient Medicine in Modern Holistic Medicine Helen King Index Rerum Index Locorum Index Nominum
