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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.
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.
Price: $263.00
Pages: 548
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine
Publication Date:
27 November 2015
ISBN: 9789004305557
Format: Hardcover
"[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.
Georgia 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 Jörg Rüpke) of Beyond Priesthood: Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in the Imperial Era (De Gruyter, 2016).
Chiara Thumiger is a research associate at Humboldt Universität (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.
Chiara Thumiger is a research associate at Humboldt Universität (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.