Disability, Medicine, and Healing Discourse in Early Christianity: New Conversations for Health Humanities
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Discourses of Health between Late Antiquity and Postmodernity -- Part One Marking Bodies, Making Communities -- 2 Christ, the Physician, and His Deaf Followers: Medical Metaphors in the Letters...
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Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Milton
Taylor & Francis Group
2023
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Dans: | Année: 2023 |
Collection/Revue: | Religion, Medicine and Health in Late Antiquity Series
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Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Medicine-Religious aspects-Christianity-History of doctrines-Early church, ca. 30-600
B Medicine in Literature B Electronic books B Christian literature-History and criticism |
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Édition parallèle: | Erscheint auch als: 9780367521004 |
Résumé: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Discourses of Health between Late Antiquity and Postmodernity -- Part One Marking Bodies, Making Communities -- 2 Christ, the Physician, and His Deaf Followers: Medical Metaphors in the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch -- 3 A Circumcising Mission to the Gentiles and Hazing Culture -- 4 Pain in Ancient Medicine and Literature, and Early Christianity: The Paradox of Inshareability and Agency -- Part Two Defining Patients, Delimiting Communities -- 5 To Be, or Not to Be Sterile: That Is a Question of Well-being in Byzantine Medical Discourse of the Sixth Century AD -- 6 The Negotiation of Meaning in Late Antique Clinical Practice: Alexander of Tralles and "Natural Remedies" -- 7 Medical Discourse, Identity Formation, and Otherness in Early Eastern Christianity -- Part Three Performing Health, Preserving Communities -- 8 Hagiography and "Mental Health" in Late Antique Monasticism -- 9 Shaping Water: Public Health and the "Medicine of Mortality" in Late Antiquity -- Reflections -- 10 Intersecting Christian Antiquity and Modern Healthcare -- Index. |
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ISBN: | 1000922871 |