The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece by Brooke Holmes

The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece

Brooke Holmes

384 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closi...

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