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Mental Disorders in the Classical World: 38 Multilingual Edition
Author(s): William Harris (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 14 Mar. 2013
- Edition: Multilingual
- Language: English
- Print length: 532 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004249826
- ISBN-13: 9789004249820
Book Description
Mental Disorders in the Classical World seeks to show through interdisciplinary work how the first medical scientists and their lay contemporaries conceptualized mental disorders and attempted to diagnose, understand and treat them.
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About the Author
W.V. Harris is Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University and Director of the university’s Center for the Ancient Mediterranean. He has written widely on psychological aspects of ancient history. In 2008 he received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, which has helped to finance research into mental disorders in antiquity. Contributors: Véronique Boudon-Millot, Christoper Gill, W.V. Harris, Brooke Holmes, Julian C. Hughes, Jacques Jouanna, George Kazantzidis, Helen King, David Konstan, Roberto Lo Presti, Glenn W. Most, Vivian Nutton, Peter Pormann, Suzanne Said, Maria Michela Sassi, Bennett Simon, Chiara Thumiger, Jerry Toner, Peter Toohey, Philip van der Eijk, and Katja Vogt.
