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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Georgia Petridou , Chiara ThumigerPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 45 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.998kg ISBN: 9789004305557ISBN 10: 9004305556 Pages: 548 Publication Date: 27 November 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews[T]he conference volume under review is the first contribution from classicists to the field of medical or health humanities, the attendant humanities perspectives used in preprofessional and professional medical education. The twenty papers collected are the most sustained discussion of the ancient evidence of humanistic topics central to contemporary medical education: patients' emotional experience, pain management, fees, patient autonomy, narrative medicine, the clinical encounter, embodiment, and confidentiality, among others. Marquis Berrey, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.08.03. Author InformationGeorgia Petridou is a research associate at the Max-Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt. She works on classical literature, history of religions and Graeco-Roman medicine in its socio-cultural context. She is the author of Divine Epiphany in Greek Literature and Culture (Oxford University Press, 2015), and co-editor (with Richard Gordon and Joerg Rupke) of Beyond Priesthood: Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in the Imperial Era (De Gruyter, 2016). Chiara Thumiger is a research associate at Humboldt Universitat (Berlin) within the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship Project 'Medicine of the Mind - Philosophy of the body'. She has previously worked on the representation of self and mental facts in literary sources (especially tragedy) and published a monograph on Euripides' Bacchae (Hidden paths, London 2007) as well as a various articles and chapters about tragedy. Her monograph on mental disorder in early Greek medicine, The life and health of the mind in early Greek medical ideas is forthcoming, as well as a volume (co-edited with P.N. Singer) on Medical Conceptions of Mental Illness from Celsus to Caelius Aurelianus. Contributors are: P. Baker, L. Bolton, P. Bouras-Vallianatos, J. Draycott, G. Ecca, L. A. Graumann,, H. F. J. Horstmanshoff, P. Koetschet, J. C. Kosak, M. Letts, O. Lewis, S. P. Mattern, G. Petridou, A. Porter, K. van Schaik, M. Stolberg, C. Thumiger, C. Roby, C. Webster, J. Z. Wee and J. M. Wilkins. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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