Phrenitis and the pathology of the mind in western medical thought (fifth century BCE to twentieth century cE).

IF 0.3 3区 哲学 Q4 HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES History of Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-10 DOI:10.1177/0957154X241254927
Chiara Thumiger
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Phrenitis is ubiquitous in ancient medicine and philosophy. Galen mentions the disease innumerable times, Patristic authors take it as a favourite allegory of human flaws, and no ancient doctor fails to diagnose it and attempt its cure. Yet the nature of this once famous disease has not been properly understood by scholars. My book provides the first full history of phrenitis. In doing so, it surveys ancient ideas about the interactions between body and soul, both in health and in disease. It also addresses ancient ideas about bodily health, mental soundness and moral 'goodness', and their heritage in contemporary psychiatry, offering a chance to reflect critically on contemporary ideas about what it means to be 'insane'.

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膈炎与西方医学思想中的精神病理学(公元前五世纪至公元前二十世纪)。
膈炎在古代医学和哲学中无处不在。盖伦(Galen)无数次提到这种疾病,教父作者将其作为人类缺陷的寓言,古代医生无一不对其进行诊断并尝试治疗。然而,学者们对这种曾经闻名遐迩的疾病的本质却没有正确的认识。我的这本书首次全面介绍了膈炎的历史。在此过程中,它考察了古代关于身体和灵魂在健康和疾病中相互作用的观点。本书还探讨了古代关于身体健康、精神健全和道德 "善 "的观点,以及这些观点在当代精神病学中的传承,为批判性地反思当代关于 "精神错乱 "的观点提供了机会。
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期刊介绍: History of Psychiatry publishes research articles, analysis and information across the entire field of the history of mental illness and the forms of medicine, psychiatry, cultural response and social policy which have evolved to understand and treat it. It covers all periods of history up to the present day, and all nations and cultures.
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