Passions and Tempers: A History of the HumoursHarper Collins, 20.02.2009 - 404 Seiten “Passions and Tempers may excite passions and tempers in some of its readers, as a good work of intellectual history should. You will learn a lot from its pages.” —Washington Post The humours—blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler—were substances thought to circulate within the body and determine a person’s health, mood, and character. The theory of humours remained an inexact but powerful tool for centuries, surviving scientific changes and offering clarity to physicians. This one-of-a-kind book follows the fate of these variable and invisible fluids from their Western origin in ancient Greece to their present-day versions. It traces their persistence from medical guidebooks of the past to current health fads, from the testimonies of medical doctors to the theories of scientists, physicians, and philosophers. By intertwining the histories of medicine, science, psychology, and philosophy, Noga Arikha revisits and revises how we think about all aspects of our physical, mental, and emotional selves. |
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Prescriptions and Priests | 14 |
The Naked Eye | 21 |
Alexandrian Sects and Galenic Travels | 29 |
Three Souls | 37 |
THE CLASSICAL TRAIL | 43 |
Hunayn ibnIshaq and the Translators | 50 |
Religion and Emotion | 57 |
LoveMaladies | 159 |
AntiMelancholy Antidotes | 167 |
Seventeenth Century | 171 |
Atoms and Humours | 179 |
Harveys Blood | 187 |
AntiHumours | 195 |
Medical Secrets and Popular Healers | 202 |
PASSIONS AND NERVES | 213 |
New Departures | 61 |
Out of Spain | 68 |
Scholasticism and Humoural Care | 78 |
Outsiders | 87 |
Apothecaries Alchemists and Amulets | 96 |
Fearful Epidemics | 104 |
RENAISSANCE BODIES | 111 |
Mind Matter and Metaphysics | 120 |
Musical Therapy | 126 |
Paracelsus and the Magic of Nature | 135 |
Beauty Beneath the Skin | 143 |
New Bodies Old Science | 151 |
The Sensitive Soul | 220 |
Enlightened Thinkers OldFashioned Doctors and | 227 |
Nervous Juice | 235 |
Modern Humours | 243 |
Mesmerism | 249 |
Brain Localization | 258 |
CONTEMPORARY HUMOURS | 269 |
Brain Images and Body Image | 280 |
The Regimen Returns | 295 |
References | 329 |
Picture Credits | 352 |