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The symptom and the subject: the emergence of the physical body in ancient Greece

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The symptom and the subject: the emergence of the physical body in ancient Greece
Author: Holmes, Brooke
Subjects: Ancient ; Civilization ; Greece ; Health Sciences ; HISTORY ; Human body ; Medicine, Greek and Roman ; Mind & Body ; PHILOSOPHY ; Symptoms
Description: The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with studies of early ethical philosophy and Euripidean tragedy, this book rewrites the traditional story of the rise of body-soul dualism in ancient Greece. Brooke Holmes demonstrates that as the body (sma) became a subject of physical inquiry, it decisively changed ancient Greek ideas about the meaning of suffering, the soul, and human nature.
Publisher: Princeton: Princeton University Press
Creation Date: 2010
Format: 382
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 9780691163406
ISBN: 9780691138992
ISBN: 0691163405
ISBN: 0691138990
ISBN: 9781400834884
ISBN: 1400834880
EISBN: 9781400834884
EISBN: 1400834880
DOI: 10.1515/9781400834884
OCLC: 650310348
LCCallNum: RC69
Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete

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