{"product_id":"holism-in-ancient-medicine-and-its-reception-9789004443082","title":"Holism in Ancient Medicine and Its Reception","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210810876247,"sku":"9789004443082","price":127.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/holism-in-ancient-medicine-and-its-reception-9789004443082","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}