Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece: From Antiquity to the Present by Oberhelman, Steven M. [Editor]

Ashgate, 2013. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-library, otherwise very good.

Ashgate. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2013. Hardcover. 1409424235 . This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B. C. E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern era. Medicine is here defined in a wider sense than just formal medical praxis, and includes non-formal medical healing methods such as folk pharmacopeia, religion, ’magical’ methods (e. G. , amulets, exorcisms, and spells) , and home remedies. This volume examines how in Greek culture dreams have played an integral part in formal and non-formal means of healing. The papers are organized into three major diachronic periods. The first group focuses on the classical Greek through late Roman Greek periods. Topics include dreams in the Hippocratic corpus; the cult of the god Asclepius and its healing centers, with their incubation and miracle dream-cures; dreams in the writings of Galen and other medical writers of the Roman Empire; and medical dreams in popular oneirocritic texts, especially the… Read More

Ashgate Pub Co, 2013. Hardcover. New. new edition edition. 341 pages. 9.53x6.46x1.10 inches.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece: From Antiquity to the Present.

Ashgate Pub Co, 2013. Hardcover. New. new edition edition. 341 pages. 9.53x6.46x1.10 inches.