Care of the Brain in Early Christianity

Care of the Brain in Early Christianity

Wright, Jessica L.

University of California Press

12/2022

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9780520387676

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. The Circulation and Performance of Medical Knowledge in Late Antiquity
2. The History of the Brain in Ancient Greek Medicine and Philosophy
3. The Invention of Ventricular Localization
4. The Governing Brain
5. The Rhetoric of Cerebral Vulnerability
6. Insanity, Vainglory, and Phrenitis
7. Humanizing the Brain in Early Christianity
Conclusion

Notes
Works Cited
Index