Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought

The first full history of a disease which originated in ancient Greece and has ramifications for contemporary ideas about insanity.

CHIARA THUMIGER is a researcher in the Cluster of Excellence Roots at the Christian-Albrechts Universität zu, Kiel. She focuses on ancient Greek and Roman thought and literature, the history of ancient medicine and the history of psychiatry, as well as on comparative approaches to the anthropology of medicine and body history. She is the author of A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought (Cambridge, 2017).