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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Impaired consciousness in ancient medical texts
  name:
    name part: Pelavski Atlas, Andrés Diego
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Cambridge University Press
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: "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 theoretical concepts clearly explained"-- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Introduction. Many definitions of consciousness -- Definitions of delirium/wakeful impaired consciousness versus madness, and the concept of 'disease' -- Delirium versus madness and the notion of disease in the Hippocratic Corpus -- Delirium, madness, and disease among post-Hellenistic authors -- Galen's delirium : hot and dry duscrasia of the hêgemonikon -- Final remarks about delirium and the notion of disease : a diachronic look -- A general glance at sleep -- Sleep in the Hippocratic Corpus -- Sleep in post-Hellenistic sources -- Sleep in Galen -- Sleep and the mind : an overview of ideas that did not change -- General overview of total loss of consciousness -- The Hippocratic Corpus and total loss of consciousness -- Total loss of consciousness in post-Hellenistic authors -- Galen's two ways of losing consciousness -- Concluding reflections on the implication of the soul in total loss of consciousness.
  note: Andrés D. Pelavski.
  subject:
    topic: Loss of consciousness
  subject:
    topic: Altered states of consciousness
  subject:
    topic: Medicine, Ancient
  subject:
    topic: Unconsciousness
  subject:
    topic: History, Ancient
  subject:
    topic: Perte de conscience
  subject:
    topic: États modifiés de conscience
  subject:
    topic: Médecine ancienne
  classification: RB150.L67 P45 2026
  classification: 616/.047
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge classical studies
  identifier: 1009616579
  identifier: 9781009616577
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009616577
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250404
    record change date: 20260212202143.8
    record identifier: in00005687672
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng