Chiara Thumiger
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 160923 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Chiara Thumiger |
| NOMBRES | Chiara |
| APELLIDO | Thumiger |
| FIRMA | THUMIGER C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Warwick |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A Filly’s Mangled Mane Reflected
Fragment 659 Radt of Sophocles’ Tyro contains a number of textual problems, and editors have tended to accept four conjectures made by scholars in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This note argues that the text of the manuscripts should be retained and that it can make perfect sense.
Phrenitis and the pathology of the mind in western medical thought (fifth century BCE to twentieth century cE)
Phrenitis is ubiquitous in ancient medicine and philosophy. Galen mentions the disease innumerable times, Patristic authors take it as a favourite allegory of human flaws, and no ancient doctor fails to diagnose it and attempt its cure. Yet the nature of this once famous disease has not been properly understood by scholars. My book provides the first full history of phrenitis. In doing so, it surveys ancient ideas about the interactions between b…
Holism in Ancient Medicine and Its Reception
This volume aims at exploring the ancient roots of ‘holistic’ approaches in the specific field of medicine and the life sciences, without, however, overlooking the larger theoretical implications of these discussions. Therefore, the project plans to broaden the perspective to include larger cultural discussions and, in a comparative spirit, reach out to some examples from non Graeco-Roman medical cultures. As such, it constitutes a fundamental co…
Therapy of the word and other psychotherapeutic approaches in Ancient Greek medicine
One of the most distinctive aspects of contemporary psychiatry is its firm grounding in a neurological and biochemical framework for the interpretation of mental life and its disturbances. In the absence of any strong neurological understanding or systematic knowledge of active pharmaceutical substances, one might expect that early ancient medicine readily resorted to non-somatic approaches to healing mental suffering. Instead, what is usually la…
A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought
This book on ancient medicine offers a unique resource for historians of medicine, historians of psychology, and classicists – and also cultural historians and historians of art. The Hippocratic texts and other contemporary medical sources have often been overlooked when it comes to their approaches to psychology, which are considered more mechanical and less elaborated than contemporary poetic and philosophical representations, but also than lat…
A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought
The Hippocratic texts and other contemporary medical sources have often been overlooked in discussions of ancient psychology. They have been considered to be more mechanical and less detailed than poetic and philosophical representations, as well as later medical texts such as those of Galen. This book does justice to these early medical accounts by demonstrating their richness and sophistication, their many connections with other contemporary cu…
History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought
Ancient Greek and Roman traditions
The experience and conceptualization of madness in Graeco-Roman antiquity are tied up with the medium of literary expressions in a particularly strong way. This chapter focuses on the ideas on mental disorder that were brought forth by physicians and philosophers dealing with questions of medicine. It also describes the historical reconstruction with a survey of the cultural representations of madness and 'the mad' in Greek culture that constitut…
Homo Patiens - Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World
This paper provides the first analysis of case histories in the Byzantine period as they feature in the On Urines of John Zacharias Aktouarios (ca. 1275–ca. 1330). This group of clinical accounts is of special importance in that they have no counterpart in the Greek-speaking world since Galen. This study aims to illustrate various factors determining the patient’s response to the physician’s advice through close examination of John’s clinical nar…
Mental and physical gradualism in Graeco-Roman medicine
The aim of this chapter is to explore how ancient medical ideas offer relevant parallels to the modern notions of degree vagueness and combinatorial vagueness with respect to mental health and its management. By closely examining several key examples, this chapter argues that Graeco-Roman physicians recognized physical and mental health as states that admit of gradation and were aware of the nuances, variations, and even the relativity of the dis…
Homo patiens
Homo Patiens - Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World is a book about the patients of the Graeco-Roman world, their role in the ancient medical encounters and their relationship to the health providers and medical practitioners of their time. This volume makes a strong claim for the relevance of a patient-centred approach to the history of ancient medicine. Attention to the experience of patients deepens our understanding of ancient socie…
Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis
Reviewed by: Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis: Ancient and Modern Stories of the Self ed. by Vanda Zajko, Ellen O’Gorman Chiara Thumiger Vanda Zajko and Ellen O’Gorman (eds.). Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis: Ancient and Modern Stories of the Self. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. ix, 374. $150.00. ISBN 978–0-19–965667–7. This collection, originating from a 2009 conference at the University of Bristol, features n…
Mental Disorders in Ancient Philosophy by Marke Ahonen (review)
Reviewed by: Mental Disorders in Ancient Philosophy by Marke Ahonen Chiara Thumiger Marke Ahonen. Mental Disorders in Ancient Philosophy. Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, 13. Heidelberg: Springer, 2014. Pp. xi, 265. $129.00. ISBN 978–3–319–03430–0. This book tackles the topic of mental disorder and its representations, a fundamental one in cultural studies, by clearly delimiting its territory to a more technical, and so far a less ex…
Mental Insanity in the Hippocratic Texts
The terminology of insanity in the Hippocratic texts appears often confusing to the reader for its variety and ambiguity. Scholarship has dealt with this problematic group of words in different ways, attributing the phenomenon to accidents in the composition of early medical texts or their status as part of a developing technical language and fundamentally reducing them to synonymous. In this piece I propose to look at them not in a semantic pers…
Mad Erôs and Eroticized Madness in Tragedy
This chapter analyzes tragic instances in which we can observe an intersection between the erotic emotion as unsettling and disruptive and the broader category of madness, in order to highlight the specifics of erotic mania in this genre. In tragedy erotic passion, whether marital love or illicit sexual desire, tends to be represented as a negative and destructive experience. This is evident in the symmetrical examples of Aeschylus' Supplices and…
The Symptom and the Subject
Reviewed by: The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece by Brooke Holmes Chiara Thumiger Brooke Holmes. The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xxiii, 355. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-691-13899-2. This book can be described in two ways: first, as a piece of cultural and philosophical history of a phase in Western mind-body dua…
Erôs in Ancient Greece
This book, arising out of a conference at University College London in 2009, examines erôs as an emotion in ancient Greek culture. It considers the phenomenology, psychology, and physiology of erôs; its associated language, metaphors, and imagery; the overlap of erôs with other emotions (jealousy, madness, philia, pothos); its role in political society; and the relationship between the human emotion and Eros the god. These topics build on recent …
Vision and Knowledge in Greek Tragedy
Vision and Knowledge in Greek Tragedy* Chiara Thumiger (bio) It is to be expected that the problematization of seeing features importantly in theater, especially so in tragedy, since it emphasizes the acquisition of knowledge and the process of human ‘learning’ from experience.1 First, the sense of sight is central to human existence and is, at the same time, a characteristically close and remote experience. As Robert Michaels (1986, 303) explain…
Vision and Knowledge in Greek Tragedy
Vision and Knowledge in Greek Tragedy* Chiara Thumiger (bio) It is to be expected that the problematization of seeing features importantly in theater, especially so in tragedy, since it emphasizes the acquisition of knowledge and the process of human ‘learning’ from experience.1 First, the sense of sight is central to human existence and is, at the same time, a characteristically close and remote experience. As Robert Michaels (1986, 303) explain…
Erôs in Ancient Greece
This book, arising out of a conference at University College London in 2009, examines erôs as an emotion in ancient Greek culture. It considers the phenomenology, psychology, and physiology of erôs; its associated language, metaphors, and imagery; the overlap of erôs with other emotions (jealousy, madness, philia, pothos); its role in political society; and the relationship between the human emotion and Eros the god. These topics build on recent …
Therapy of the word and other psychotherapeutic approaches in Ancient Greek medicine
One of the most distinctive aspects of contemporary psychiatry is its firm grounding in a neurological and biochemical framework for the interpretation of mental life and its disturbances. In the absence of any strong neurological understanding or systematic knowledge of active pharmaceutical substances, one might expect that early ancient medicine readily resorted to non-somatic approaches to healing mental suffering. Instead, what is usually la…
Mad Erôs and Eroticized Madness in Tragedy
This chapter analyzes tragic instances in which we can observe an intersection between the erotic emotion as unsettling and disruptive and the broader category of madness, in order to highlight the specifics of erotic mania in this genre. In tragedy erotic passion, whether marital love or illicit sexual desire, tends to be represented as a negative and destructive experience. This is evident in the symmetrical examples of Aeschylus' Supplices and…
The Symptom and the Subject
Reviewed by: The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece by Brooke Holmes Chiara Thumiger Brooke Holmes. The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xxiii, 355. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-691-13899-2. This book can be described in two ways: first, as a piece of cultural and philosophical history of a phase in Western mind-body dua…
Erôs in Ancient Greece
This book, arising out of a conference at University College London in 2009, examines erôs as an emotion in ancient Greek culture. It considers the phenomenology, psychology, and physiology of erôs; its associated language, metaphors, and imagery; the overlap of erôs with other emotions (jealousy, madness, philia, pothos); its role in political society; and the relationship between the human emotion and Eros the god. These topics build on recent …
Vision and Knowledge in Greek Tragedy
Vision and Knowledge in Greek Tragedy* Chiara Thumiger (bio) It is to be expected that the problematization of seeing features importantly in theater, especially so in tragedy, since it emphasizes the acquisition of knowledge and the process of human ‘learning’ from experience.1 First, the sense of sight is central to human existence and is, at the same time, a characteristically close and remote experience. As Robert Michaels (1986, 303) explain…
Mental Disorders in Ancient Philosophy by Marke Ahonen (review)
Reviewed by: Mental Disorders in Ancient Philosophy by Marke Ahonen Chiara Thumiger Marke Ahonen. Mental Disorders in Ancient Philosophy. Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, 13. Heidelberg: Springer, 2014. Pp. xi, 265. $129.00. ISBN 978–3–319–03430–0. This book tackles the topic of mental disorder and its representations, a fundamental one in cultural studies, by clearly delimiting its territory to a more technical, and so far a less ex…
Mental Insanity in the Hippocratic Texts
The terminology of insanity in the Hippocratic texts appears often confusing to the reader for its variety and ambiguity. Scholarship has dealt with this problematic group of words in different ways, attributing the phenomenon to accidents in the composition of early medical texts or their status as part of a developing technical language and fundamentally reducing them to synonymous. In this piece I propose to look at them not in a semantic pers…
Homo Patiens - Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World
This paper provides the first analysis of case histories in the Byzantine period as they feature in the On Urines of John Zacharias Aktouarios (ca. 1275–ca. 1330). This group of clinical accounts is of special importance in that they have no counterpart in the Greek-speaking world since Galen. This study aims to illustrate various factors determining the patient’s response to the physician’s advice through close examination of John’s clinical nar…
Mental and physical gradualism in Graeco-Roman medicine
The aim of this chapter is to explore how ancient medical ideas offer relevant parallels to the modern notions of degree vagueness and combinatorial vagueness with respect to mental health and its management. By closely examining several key examples, this chapter argues that Graeco-Roman physicians recognized physical and mental health as states that admit of gradation and were aware of the nuances, variations, and even the relativity of the dis…
Homo patiens
Homo Patiens - Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World is a book about the patients of the Graeco-Roman world, their role in the ancient medical encounters and their relationship to the health providers and medical practitioners of their time. This volume makes a strong claim for the relevance of a patient-centred approach to the history of ancient medicine. Attention to the experience of patients deepens our understanding of ancient socie…
Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis
Reviewed by: Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis: Ancient and Modern Stories of the Self ed. by Vanda Zajko, Ellen O’Gorman Chiara Thumiger Vanda Zajko and Ellen O’Gorman (eds.). Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis: Ancient and Modern Stories of the Self. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. ix, 374. $150.00. ISBN 978–0-19–965667–7. This collection, originating from a 2009 conference at the University of Bristol, features n…
A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought
The Hippocratic texts and other contemporary medical sources have often been overlooked in discussions of ancient psychology. They have been considered to be more mechanical and less detailed than poetic and philosophical representations, as well as later medical texts such as those of Galen. This book does justice to these early medical accounts by demonstrating their richness and sophistication, their many connections with other contemporary cu…
History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought
Ancient Greek and Roman traditions
The experience and conceptualization of madness in Graeco-Roman antiquity are tied up with the medium of literary expressions in a particularly strong way. This chapter focuses on the ideas on mental disorder that were brought forth by physicians and philosophers dealing with questions of medicine. It also describes the historical reconstruction with a survey of the cultural representations of madness and 'the mad' in Greek culture that constitut…
A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought
This book on ancient medicine offers a unique resource for historians of medicine, historians of psychology, and classicists – and also cultural historians and historians of art. The Hippocratic texts and other contemporary medical sources have often been overlooked when it comes to their approaches to psychology, which are considered more mechanical and less elaborated than contemporary poetic and philosophical representations, but also than lat…
Therapy of the word and other psychotherapeutic approaches in Ancient Greek medicine
One of the most distinctive aspects of contemporary psychiatry is its firm grounding in a neurological and biochemical framework for the interpretation of mental life and its disturbances. In the absence of any strong neurological understanding or systematic knowledge of active pharmaceutical substances, one might expect that early ancient medicine readily resorted to non-somatic approaches to healing mental suffering. Instead, what is usually la…
Holism in Ancient Medicine and Its Reception
This volume aims at exploring the ancient roots of ‘holistic’ approaches in the specific field of medicine and the life sciences, without, however, overlooking the larger theoretical implications of these discussions. Therefore, the project plans to broaden the perspective to include larger cultural discussions and, in a comparative spirit, reach out to some examples from non Graeco-Roman medical cultures. As such, it constitutes a fundamental co…
Phrenitis and the pathology of the mind in western medical thought (fifth century BCE to twentieth century cE)
Phrenitis is ubiquitous in ancient medicine and philosophy. Galen mentions the disease innumerable times, Patristic authors take it as a favourite allegory of human flaws, and no ancient doctor fails to diagnose it and attempt its cure. Yet the nature of this once famous disease has not been properly understood by scholars. My book provides the first full history of phrenitis. In doing so, it surveys ancient ideas about the interactions between b…
A Filly’s Mangled Mane Reflected
Fragment 659 Radt of Sophocles’ Tyro contains a number of textual problems, and editors have tended to accept four conjectures made by scholars in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This note argues that the text of the manuscripts should be retained and that it can make perfect sense.
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