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Galen and the rhetoric of healing
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Examining his professional interactions in the context of the world in which he lived and practiced, Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing provides a fresh perspective on a foundational figure in medicine and valuable insight into how doctors thought about their patients and their practice in the ancient world.
| Title |
Galen and the rhetoric of healing / Susan P. Mattern. |
|---|---|
| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Publisher |
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Creation Date |
2008 |
| Notes |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-268) and index. English |
| Content |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Stories in Context -- I. SOCIETY AND CULTURE -- Galen's Life -- Diseases and Death in Rome -- Galen and Greek Culture -- Galen's Corpus -- Galen's Audience: "Friends and Companions" -- Professionalism and Social Status -- II. NARRATIVE AND MEDICINE -- Hippocratic Case Histories -- Case Histories after the Hippocratic Corpus -- Inscriptions and the Cult of Asclepius -- Written Tradition and Clinical Experience -- Case Histories in Galen's Work -- Memory and Autobiography -- 2 Place and Time -- I. CONTEXT AND AUTHENTICITY -- II. PLACE -- City -- Country -- Houses -- III. TIME -- Chronology -- Medical Time -- Time and Narrative Structure -- 3 The Contest: Rivals, Spectators, and Judges -- I. AGON -- II. RIVALS -- Other Physicians -- Confrontation -- Demonstrating Superiority -- III. AUDIENCE -- Witness and Judge -- The Addressee -- Friends -- Rivals and Patients -- Family and Household -- Husbands, Fathers, and Masters -- IV. FAILURE -- V. CASE HISTORY AND HEALING NARRATIVE -- 4 The Patient -- I. PRESENTING THE PATIENT -- Names and Terms -- Temperament and Constitution -- Age -- Sex: Female Patients -- Social Information -- Conclusion -- II. THE PATIENT AS CHARACTER -- The Patient's Perspective -- The Patient's Lifestyle -- Character and Emotion -- Conclusion -- 5 Physician and Patient -- I. THE PHYSICIAN'S PERSPECTIVE: "I" AND "WE" -- II. PHYSICIAN AND PATIENT -- Intimacy -- Obedience -- Perceiving the Patient -- III. FEVER -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendix A: Works Cited from Galen's Corpus -- Appendix B: Table of Cases -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y. |
| Extent |
1 online resource (292 p.) |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
997010704871905171 |
MARC RECORDS
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- Galen.
- nna Galenus
- Galen, Claudius
- Galenus, Claudius
- Galen, of Pergamon
- Galénos
- Galeno
- Galen, Klavdiĭ
- Galinus
- Galiʼenus
- Galiʼeno
- Galiʼenu
- Galien, de Pergame
- Galeno, Claudio
- جالينوس
- Γαλῆνος
- Galênós, van Pérgamon
- Medicine, Greek and Roman.
- Physician and patient History.
- Doctor and patient
- Doctor-patient relationships
- Patient and doctor
- Patient and physician
- Patient-doctor relationships
- Patient-physician relationships
- Patients and doctors
- Patients and physicians
- Physician-patient relationships
- Physicians and patients
- Greek medicine
- Medicine, Roman
- Medicine, Unani
- Roman medicine
- Tibb (Medicine)
- Unani medicine
- Unani-Tibb (Medicine)
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