Impaired consciousness is a topic lying at the intersection of science and philosophy. It encourages reflection on questions concerning human nature, the body, the soul, the mind and their relation, as well as the blurry limits between health, disease, life and death. This is the first study of impaired consciousness in the works of some highly influential Greek and Roman medical writers who lived in periods ranging from Classical Greece to the Roman Empire in the second century CE. Andrés Pelavski employs the notion and contrasts ancient and contemporary theoretical frameworks in order to…mehr
Impaired consciousness is a topic lying at the intersection of science and philosophy. It encourages reflection on questions concerning human nature, the body, the soul, the mind and their relation, as well as the blurry limits between health, disease, life and death. This is the first study of impaired consciousness in the works of some highly influential Greek and Roman medical writers who lived in periods ranging from Classical Greece to the Roman Empire in the second century CE. Andrés Pelavski employs the notion and contrasts ancient and contemporary theoretical frameworks in order to challenge some established ideas about mental illness in antiquity. All the ancient texts are translated and the theoretical concepts clearly explained. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
ANDRÉS PELAVSKI holds a postdoctoral position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a consultant anaesthetist as well as a classicist and the book originated in his doctoral thesis at the University of Cambridge, which was awarded the Hare Prize in 2022.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface 1. Introduction: many definitions of consciousness Part I. Delirium: 2. Definitions of relirium/wakeful impaired consciousness versus madness, and the concept of 'disease' 3. Delirium versus madness and the notion of disease in the Hippocratic corpus 4. Delirium, madness, and disease among post-Hellenistic authors 5. Galen's delirium: hot and dry duscrasia of the hêgemonikon 6. Final remarks about delirium and the notion of disease: a diachronic look Part II. Sleep: 7. A general glance at sleep 8. Sleep in the Hippocratic corpus 9. Sleep in post-Hellenistic sources 10. Sleep in Galen 11. Sleep and the mind: an overview of ideas that did not change Part III. Fainting: 12. General overview of total loss of consciousness 13. The Hippocratic corpus and total loss of consciousness 14. Total loss of consciousness in post-Hellenistic authors 15. Galen's two ways of losing consciousness 16. Concluding reflections on the implication of the soul in total loss of consciousness Conclusions Transversal axis: what has the analysis of consciousness revealed about the sources? Longitudinal thematic axis: advantages of exploring impaired consciousness Bibliography Primary sources, secondary sources.
Preface 1. Introduction: many definitions of consciousness Part I. Delirium: 2. Definitions of relirium/wakeful impaired consciousness versus madness, and the concept of 'disease' 3. Delirium versus madness and the notion of disease in the Hippocratic corpus 4. Delirium, madness, and disease among post-Hellenistic authors 5. Galen's delirium: hot and dry duscrasia of the hêgemonikon 6. Final remarks about delirium and the notion of disease: a diachronic look Part II. Sleep: 7. A general glance at sleep 8. Sleep in the Hippocratic corpus 9. Sleep in post-Hellenistic sources 10. Sleep in Galen 11. Sleep and the mind: an overview of ideas that did not change Part III. Fainting: 12. General overview of total loss of consciousness 13. The Hippocratic corpus and total loss of consciousness 14. Total loss of consciousness in post-Hellenistic authors 15. Galen's two ways of losing consciousness 16. Concluding reflections on the implication of the soul in total loss of consciousness Conclusions Transversal axis: what has the analysis of consciousness revealed about the sources? Longitudinal thematic axis: advantages of exploring impaired consciousness Bibliography Primary sources, secondary sources.
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