03005nam a22003491a 4500 12684544 20110718132856.0 020213s2002 ne a b 001 0 eng 2002020862 9004121528 (DLC)461 DLC DLC DLC pcc R126.H6 M825 2002 R 126.H6M825 2002 21 Laskaris, Julie. The art is long : on the sacred disease and the scientific tradition / by Julie Laskaris. [Text] Leiden Leiden Brill 2002 viii, 171 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; v. 25 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgementsix -- Introduction1 -- Science, Magic, Rationality, Empiricism-A Proposal6 -- Science, Magic, Rationality, Empiricism-Modern -- Scholarship on Ancient Medicine15 -- Sources and Methodology29 -- Chapter One: The Art is Long32 -- Early Healers33 -- Transmission of Medical Knowledge44 -- Healing and Religion49 -- Chapter Two: On the Sacred Disease-Summary; History -- and Reception54 -- Summary of the Text54 -- Early Reception of the Text59 -- Modern Reception of the Text62 -- Chapter Three: On the Sacred Disease-A Sophistic -- Protreptic Speech73 -- The Definition of Techne and the Scientific Problem -- Set75 -- The Defense of Secular Medicine's Technicity78 -- Sophistic Protreptic Speeches83 -- Characteristics of Protreptic Speeches84 -- First-person verbs84 -- Epangelma85 -- The Relativity of Goods93 -- The Divine is Contrary to Nature94 -- The Divine is in Accordance with Nature95 -- The Divine is Both Contrary to Nature and is in -- Accordance with Nature96 -- The Attack on Magico-Religious Medicine's Technicity97 -- Modus Tollens Arguments108 -- Sophistic Problemata and the Technai110 -- Disease and the Divine-Adding to the Problem Set113 -- Chapter Four: Getting Their Goat125 -- Etymologies126 -- The Disease Called Sacred126 -- Diaphragm and Ears127 -- Everyday Experiences129 -- Conventional Religious Ritual129 -- Headaches and Numbness129 -- Storing Wine131 -- Physiological Description132 -- Health and the Climate135 -- Divine Punishment140 -- The Brain and Bile vs. Phlegm141 -- Fear143 -- Hereditary Curses vs. Archetai kata genos146 -- Pollution vs. Contact149 -- Conclusion156 -- Bibliography159 -- General Index167 -- Index Locorum172. Hippo - (Extinct city) - Biography - Christian saints - Algeria Table of contents 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 20 y-gencatlg acquire 2 shelf copies policy default jc02 2002-02-28 to technician jc03 2002-02-28 to Dewey jc16 2002-07-16 jc03 2002-07-19 to BCCD Interim2002 38997 38997 0 0 lcc 0 0 GEN CPL CPL GEN 2010-02-22 Purchase 122.00 1 1 R 126.H6M825 2002 R43666M3232 2026-04-10 10:38:02 2025-06-14 1 2010-02-22 BK