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Titre(s) : Disability, medicine, and healing discourse in early Christianity [Texte imprimé] : new conversations for health humanities / edited by Susan R. Holman, Chris L. de Wet, Jonathan L. Zecher
Publication : Abingdon : Routledge, copyright 2024
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii-186 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection : Religion, medicine and health in Late Antiquity
Lien à la collection : Religion, medicine and health in Late Antiquity
Note(s) : Bibliogr. en fin de chapitres. Notes bibliogr. pages 170-181. Index
"Using contemporary theories drawn from health humanities, this volume analyses the
nature and effects of disability, medicine, and health discourse in a variety of early
Christian literature. In recent years, the "medical turn" in early Christian studies
has developed a robust literature around health, disability, and medicine, and the
health humanities have made critical interventions in modern conversations around
the aims of health and the nature of healthcare. Considering these developments, it
has become clear that early Christian texts and ideas have much to offer modern conversations,
and that these texts are illuminated using theoretical lenses drawn from modern medicine
and public health. The chapters in this book explore different facets of early Christian
engagement with medicine, either in itself or as metaphor and material for theological
reflections on human impairment, restoration, and flourishing. Through its focus on
late antique religious texts, the book raises questions around the social, rather
than biological, aspects of illness and diminishment as a human experience, as well
as the strategies by which that experience is navigated. The result is an innovative
and timely intervention in the study of health and healthcare, that bridges current
divides between historical studies and contemporary issues. Taken together, the book
offers a prismatic conversation of perspectives on aspects of care at the heart of
societal and individual "wellness" today, inviting readers to meet or revisit patristic
texts as tracings across a map of embodied identity, dissonance, and corporal care.
It is a fascinating resource for anyone working on ancient medicine and health, or
the social worlds of early Christianity"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Holman, Susan R. (1956-....). Éditeur scientifique
De Wet, Chris L.. Éditeur scientifique
Zecher, Jonathan L.. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Médecine -- Christianisme -- Doctrines religieuses -- 30-600 (Église primitive)
Médecine et religion
Santé -- Religion
Indice(s) Dewey :
201.661 (23e éd.) = Religions et médecine
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780367521004 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb473023248
Notice n° :
FRBNF47302324
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction : discourses of health between late antiquity and postmodernity ; Christ
the physician and his deaf followers : medical metaphors in the letters of Ignatius
of Antioch / Anna Rebecca Sølevag ; A circumcising mission to the gentiles and hazing
culture / Adam Booth ; Pain in ancient medicine and literature, and early Christianity
: a paradox of insharability and agency / Helen Rhee ; 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 ; The negotiation of meaning in late antique clinical practice :
Alexander of Tralles and "natural remedies" / Jonathan L. Zecher ; Medical discourse,
identity formation, and otherness in early Eastern Christianity / Chris L. de Wet
; Hagiography and "mental health" in late antique monasticism / Paul Dilley ; Shaping
water : public health and the 'medicine of mortality' in late antiquity / Susan R.
Holman ; Intersecting Christian antiquity and modern health care / Brenda Llewellyn
Ihssen.
