Disability, medicine, and healing discourse in early Christianity : new conversations for health humanities /: new conversations for health humanities. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Susan R. Holman, Chris L. de Wet, Jonathan L. Zecher.
• Editors: Holman, Susan R; De Wet, Chris L, 1982-; Zecher, Jonathan L
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Discourses of Health between Late Antiquity and Postmodernity; Part One: Marking Bodies, Making Communities; 2. Christ the Physician and his Deaf Followers: Medical Metaphors in the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch - Anna Rebecca Sølevag; 3. A Circumcising Mission to the Gentiles and Hazing Culture – Adam Booth; 4. Pain in Ancient Medicine and Literature, and Early Christianity: A Paradox of Insharability and Agency – Helen Rhee; Part Two: Defining Patients, Delimiting Communities; 5. To Be, or Not to Be Sterile: that is a Question of Well-being in Byzantine Medical Discourse of the Sixth Century AD - Elisa Groff; 6. The Negotiation of Meaning in Late Antique Clinical Practice: Alexander of Tralles and "Natural Remedies" – Jonathan L. Zecher; 7. Medical Discourse, Identity Formation, and Otherness in Early Eastern Christianity – Chris L. de Wet; Part Three: Performing Health, Preserving Communities; 8. Hagiography and "Mental Health" in Late Antique Monasticism – Paul Dilley; 9. Shaping Water: Public Health and the ‘Medicine of Mortality’ in Late Antiquity – Susan R. Holman; Reflections; 10. Intersecting Christian Antiquity and Modern Health Care - Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (186 pages)
• Subjects: 201.661; Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Christian literature -- History and criticism; Medicine in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000922943; 9781000922875
• Related ISBNs: 9780367521004
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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