ORTIZ Pierre-Henri.
Psychiatry in Rome. Understanding and Treating Madness According to Celsus and Caelius Aurelianus.
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| N° d'inventaire | 30386 |
| Format | 13.5 X 21 |
| Détails | 320 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251455419 |
From the very beginning, Greek and Roman societies recognized the most serious mental disorders as illnesses, which constituted a social issue and called for appropriate legal responses. However, it was not until the Hellenistic period and in Rome that psychiatry truly emerged.
The relatively recent access to the medical corpus in translation now allows us to discover a decisive period in which a complex psychiatric practice and theory emerged, far removed from the most commonly accepted prejudices. Mental illness was not the object of a supernatural explanation; pure mental disorder was treated by medicine, but it was in Rome rather than in Hippocratic times that this development took place; this extension of the field of medicine was linked to the development of new remedies, as well as to the new socio-economic and cultural configuration of the empire.
The aim of this book is to offer a synthetic, and partly renewed, account of the beginnings of this history, and to provide a reading of the major texts of Celsus (1st century AD), taking up Asclepiades of Bithynia (2nd -1st century BC ), and of Caelius Aurelianus (5th century AD), reformulating in Latin the teaching of Soranos of Ephesus (2nd century AD), translated here into French for the first time.
The relatively recent access to the medical corpus in translation now allows us to discover a decisive period in which a complex psychiatric practice and theory emerged, far removed from the most commonly accepted prejudices. Mental illness was not the object of a supernatural explanation; pure mental disorder was treated by medicine, but it was in Rome rather than in Hippocratic times that this development took place; this extension of the field of medicine was linked to the development of new remedies, as well as to the new socio-economic and cultural configuration of the empire.
The aim of this book is to offer a synthetic, and partly renewed, account of the beginnings of this history, and to provide a reading of the major texts of Celsus (1st century AD), taking up Asclepiades of Bithynia (2nd -1st century BC ), and of Caelius Aurelianus (5th century AD), reformulating in Latin the teaching of Soranos of Ephesus (2nd century AD), translated here into French for the first time.
The relatively recent access to the medical corpus in translation now allows us to discover a decisive period in which a complex psychiatric practice and theory emerged, far removed from the most commonly accepted prejudices. Mental illness was not the object of a supernatural explanation; pure mental disorder was treated by medicine, but it was in Rome rather than in Hippocratic times that this development took place; this extension of the field of medicine was linked to the development of new remedies, as well as to the new socio-economic and cultural configuration of the empire.
The aim of this book is to offer a synthetic, and partly renewed, account of the beginnings of this history, and to provide a reading of the major texts of Celsus (1st century AD), taking up Asclepiades of Bithynia (2nd -1st century BC ), and of Caelius Aurelianus (5th century AD), reformulating in Latin the teaching of Soranos of Ephesus (2nd century AD), translated here into French for the first time.