Homo patiens : approaches to the patient in the ancient world / edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Notes on the Contributors; Bibliographical Note; Introduction: Towards a History of the AncientPatient's View; Part 1 Medical Authority and Patient Perspectives; Chapter 1 "This I Suffered in the Short Space of my Life". The Epitaph for Lucius Minicius Anthimianus (CIG 3272; Peek GV 1166); Chapter 2 Questioning the Patient, Questioning Hippocrates: Rufus of Ephesus and the Pursuit of Knowledge; Part 2 Case Histories in the Hippocratic Corpus; Chapter 3 Patient Function and Physician Function in the Hippocratic Cases

Chapter 4 Case History as Minority Report in the Hippocratic Epidemics 1Chapter 5 Voice Pathologies and the 'Hippocratic Triangle'; Part 3 Patients and Psychological Illness; Chapter 6 Galen's Anxious Patients: Lypē as Anxiety Disorder; Chapter 7 Experiencing Madness: Mental Patients in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Medicine; Part 4 Emotional Aspects of the Patient-Physician Relation; Chapter 8 Interpretations of the Healer's Touch in the Hippocratic Corpus; Chapter 9 Patience for the Little Patient: The Infant in Soranus' Gynaecia

880-01 Chapter 15 Case Histories in Late Byzantium: Reading the Patient in John Zacharias Aktouarios' On UrinesPart 6 The Informed Patient: Self-Healing and the Patient as Physician; Chapter 16 Treatment of the Man: Galen's Preventive Medicine in the De Sanitate Tuenda; Chapter 17 Literary and Documentary Evidence for Lay Medical Practice in the Roman Republic and Empire; Chapter 18 Aelius Aristides as Informed Patient and Physician; Chapter 19 "It may not cure you, it may not save your life, but it will help you"; Epilogue

Chapter 20 Approaches to the History of Patients: From the Ancient World to Early Modern EuropeIndex Locorum; Index Rerum

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 relevance of a patient-centred approach to the history of ancient medicine. Attention to the experience of patients deepens our understanding of ancient societies and their medical markets, and enriches our knowledge of the history of ancient cultures. It is a first step towards shaping a history of the ancient patient's view, which will be of use not only to ancient historians, students of medical humanities, and historians of medicine, but also to any reader interested in medical ethics.

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