Full Description
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.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on the Contributors
Bibliographical Note
Introduction: Towards a History of the Ancient Patient's View
Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger
Part 1 - Medical Authority and Patient Perspectives
1 "This I Suffered in the Short Space of my Life". The Epitaph for Lucius Minicius Anthimianus (CIG 3272; Peek GV 1166)
Lutz A. Graumann and Manfred Horstmanshoff
2 Questioning the Patient, Questioning Hippocrates: Rufus of Ephesus and the Pursuit of Knowledge
Melinda Letts
Part 2 - Case Histories in the Hippocratic Corpus
3 Patient Function and Physician Function in the Hippocratic Cases
Chiara Thumiger
4 Case History as Minority Report in the Hippocratic Epidemics 1
John Z. Wee
5 Voice Pathologies and the 'Hippocratic Triangle'
Colin Webster
Part 3 - Patients and Psychological Illness
6 Galen's Anxious Patients: Lypē as Anxiety Disorder
Susan P. Mattern
7 Experiencing Madness: Mental Patients in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Medicine
Pauline Koetschet
Part 4 - Emotional Aspects of the Patient-Physician Relationship
8 Interpretations of the Healer's Touch in the Hippocratic Corpus
Jennifer Kosak
9 Patience for the Little Patient: The Infant in Soranus' Gynaecia
Lesley Bolton
10 Compassion in Soranus' Gynecology and Caelius Aurelianus' On Chronic Diseases
Amber J. Porter
11 Galen on the Patient's Role in Pain Diagnosis: Sensation, Consensus, and Metaphor
Courtney Roby
Part 5 - Material Aspects, Diagnostic Techniques and their Impact on the Patient-Physician Relationship
12 The Μισθάριον in the Praecepta: The Medical Fee and its Impact on the Patient
Giulia Ecca
13 The Practical Application of Ancient Pulse-Lore and its Influence on the Patient-Doctor Interaction
Orly Lewis
14 Images of Doctors and their Implements: A Visual Dialogue between the Patient and the Doctor
Patricia A. Baker
15 Case Histories in Late Byzantium: Reading the Patient in John Zacharias Aktouarios' On Urines
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Part 6 - The Informed Patient: Self-Healing and the Patient as Physician
16 Treatment of the Man: Galen's Preventive Medicine in the De Sanitate Tuenda
John M. Wilkins
17 Literary and Documentary Evidence for Lay Medical Practice in the Roman Republic and Empire
Jane Draycott
18 Aelius Aristides as Informed Patient and Physician
Georgia Petridou
19 "It may not cure you, it may not save your life, but it will help you"
Katherine D. van Schaik
20 Epilogue: Approaches to the History of Patients: From the Ancient World to Early Modern Europe
Michael Stolberg
Index locorum
Index rerum
