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Time and Ancient Medicine How Sundials and Water Clocks Changed Medical Science




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicazione: 09/2023





Note Editore

Time and Ancient Medicine is the first monograph to explore, on the one hand, how the introduction of new timekeeping technologies (namely, sundials and water clocks) affected the practice, rhetoric, and philosophy of ancient medicine and, on the other hand, how medical timekeeping practices affected engagement with time elsewhere in society. The study seeks, first, to offer a chronological narrative of how timekeeping technologies and medical practices evolved and influenced one another in ancient Greece and Rome, with consideration of relevant Pharaonic Egyptian and Assyro-Babylonian precedents. Kassandra J. Miller turns to a series of case studies, drawn from the Roman Imperial period, to investigate thematic questions, asking how debates over medical timekeeping interacted with debates over proper scientific methodology, the status of medicine as a formal art, and the relationships between medicine and other disciplines like mathematics, astronomy, and astrology. Throughout, this study places epigraphic, artistic, and other material evidence for hourly timekeeping in dialogue with selections from medical literature, some of which has not previously been published in modern-language translation. Ultimately, this study reveals that time and timekeeping played fundamental roles in ancient medical debates and practices and challenges the traditional narrative that the social history of “clock time” only begins with the invention of the mechanical clock in the Medieval period. It offers new insights into the specific ways that physicians of the ancient Mediterranean engaged with their evolving temporal landscapes and raises questions about the relationships between time and medicine in the modern day.




Sommario

1 - Telling Time in the Greco-Roman World
2 - Doctors and Clocks: The Emergence of Hourly Timekeeping in Medical Contexts
3 - Clocks as Symbols 1: In Galen's Thought
4 - Clocks as Symbols 2: Among the Roman Elite
5 - From "Season" to "Hour": Galenic Refinements of the Hippocratic Hora
6 - When is Temporal Exactitude Desirable?
7 - "Right Timing" in Sickness and in Health: Hourly Timekeeping and Kairos in Galen's On Hygiene




Autore

Kassandra J. Miller earned her PhD in Classics at the University of Chicago. She has been an Assistant Professor of Classics at Colby College since 2020, and previously taught in Classics departments at Bard College and Union College. She co-edited and contributed to the volume Down to the Hour: Short Time in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East (2020) and has published articles and book chapters on Greco-Roman timekeeping, medicine, magic, and mythology.










Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9780198885177

Condizione: Nuovo
Dimensioni: 240 x 20.0 x 164 mm Ø 538 gr
Formato: Copertina rigida
Illustration Notes:black and white figures/illustrations
Pagine Arabe: 256


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