Homo Patiens - Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World

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"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." Contents 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 1 Chapter 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 Chapter 10 Compassion in Soranus’ Gynecology and Caelius Aurelianus’ On Chronic Diseases Chapter 11 Galen on the Patient’s Role in Pain Diagnosis: Sensation, Consensus, and Metaphor Part 5 Material Aspects, Diagnostic Techniques and their Impact on the Patient-Physician Relationship Chapter 12 The Μισθάριον in the Praecepta: The Medical Fee and its Impact on the Patient Chapter 13 The Practical Application of Ancient Pulse-Lore and its Influence on the Patient-Doctor Interaction Chapter 14 Images of Doctors and their Implements: A Visual Dialogue between the Patient and the Doctor Chapter 15 Case Histories in Late Byzantium: Reading the Patient in John Zacharias Aktouarios’ On Urines Part 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 Europe Index Locorum Index Rerum