Impaired consciousness in ancient medical texts /

"Employs a contemporary medical perspective to explore ancient ideas about the workings of the body, the soul and the mind -which underpin the notion of consciousness- challenging, thereby, some established ideas about mental illness in antiquity. All the ancient texts are translated and the th...

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Main Author:	Pelavski Atlas, Andrés Diego (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Series:	Cambridge classical studies.
Subjects:	Loss of consciousness. Altered states of consciousness. Medicine, Ancient. Unconsciousness History, Ancient Perte de conscience. États modifiés de conscience. Médecine ancienne. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book