Psyche and Soma: Physicians and Metaphysicians on the Mind-body Problem from Antiquity to EnlightenmentJohn P. Wright, Paul Potter This is a multi-disciplinary exploration of the history of understanding of the human mind or soul and its relationship to the body, through the course of more than two thousand years. Thirteen specially commissioned chapters, each written by a recognized expert, discuss such figures as the doctors Hippocrates and Galen, the theologians St Paul, Augustine, and Aquinas, and philosophers from Plato to Leibniz. |
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Soma and Psyche in Hippocratic Medicine | 13 |
The Defining Features of MindBody Dualism in | 37 |
Aristotles Psychophysiological Account of the SoulBody | 57 |
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