Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece: From Antiquity to the Present

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Contents: Introduction: medical pluralism, healing, and dreams in Greek culture, Steven M. Oberhelman Part 1 Antiquity: The value of dream diagnosis in the medical praxis of the Hippocratics and Galen, Maithe A.A. Hulskamp Dream healing in Asclepieia in the Mediterranean, Louise Cilliers and FranA ois Pieter Retief Writing the medical dream in the Hippocratics corpus at Epidaurus, Lee T. Pearcy Dream hermeneutics in Aelius Aristidesa (TM) Hieroi Logoi, Janet Downie Illness and its metaphors in Artemidorusa (TM) Oneirocritica: a negative list, Christine Walde. Part 2 Byzantium: Who is behind incubation stories? The hagiographers of Byzantine dream-healing miracles, IldikA^3 Csepregi Healing dreams in early Byzantine miracle collections, Stavroula Constantinou Hospital dreams in Byzantium, Timothy S. Miller The stuff of dreams: substances and dreams in Greek and Latin literature, Jovan Bilbija Magic, infidelity, and secret annotations in a Cypriot manuscript of the early 14th century Welcome MSL 14), Barbara Zipser. Part 3 The Post-Byzantine Period to the Current Day: Dreams, dreambooks, and post-Byzantine practical healing manuals (iatrosophia), Steven M. Oberhelman Fields in dreams: anxiety, experience, and the limits of social constructionism in modern Greek dream narratives, Charles Stewart Dream healing for a new age, Jill Dubisch Index.

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