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Disability, Medicine, and Healing Discourse in Early Christianity
New Conversations for Health Humanities
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Offers a unique approach to studying disability, medicine, and health discourse in early Christianity and early Christian literature, bringing in contemporary theories and ideas from health humanities in the modern era.


Contents:

1. Introduction: Discourses of Health between Late Antiquity and Postmodernity; Part One: Marking Bodies, Making Communities; 2. Christ the Physician and his Deaf Followers: Medical Metaphors in the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch - Anna Rebecca Solevag; 3. A Circumcising Mission to the Gentiles and Hazing Culture - Adam Booth; 4. Pain in Ancient Medicine and Literature, and Early Christianity: A Paradox of Insharability and Agency - Helen Rhee; Part Two: Defining Patients, Delimiting Communities; 5. 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; 6. The Negotiation of Meaning in Late Antique Clinical Practice: Alexander of Tralles and "Natural Remedies" - Jonathan L. Zecher; 7. Medical Discourse, Identity Formation, and Otherness in Early Eastern Christianity - Chris L. de Wet; Part Three: Performing Health, Preserving Communities; 8. Hagiography and "Mental Health" in Late Antique Monasticism - Paul Dilley; 9. Shaping Water: Public Health and the 'Medicine of Mortality' in Late Antiquity - Susan R. Holman; Reflections; 10. Intersecting Christian Antiquity and Modern Health Care - Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen.


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ISBN-13: 9780367521004
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Publication date: August, 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 652g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: General Issues

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