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Carregando... Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours (2007)de Noga Arikha
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"Passions and Tempers may excite passions and tempers in some of its readers, as a good work of intellectual history should. You will learn a lot from its pages." --Washington Post The humours--blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler--were substances thought to circulate within the body and determine a person's health, mood, and character. The theory of humours remained an inexact but powerful tool for centuries, surviving scientific changes and offering clarity to physicians. This one-of-a-kind book follows the fate of these variable and invisible fluids from their Western origin in ancient Greece to their present-day versions. It traces their persistence from medical guidebooks of the past to current health fads, from the testimonies of medical doctors to the theories of scientists, physicians, and philosophers. By intertwining the histories of medicine, science, psychology, and philosophy, Noga Arikha revisits and revises how we think about all aspects of our physical, mental, and emotional selves. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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"A humour is literally a fluid -- humon in Greek, (h)umor in Latin -- and bodily humours are fluids within a living organism. In the West, the theory developed that the human body was constituted of four of these humours, all central to its functioning. Phlegm was one of them; the three others were yellow bile, black bile, and blood." (xviii)
"Humours now remain familiar mostly metaphorically.... But humours do not survive just as linguistic habits: this book argues that their explanatory power has actually never gone away. It tells how and why this is, bringing them back to light, delving beneath the names we give to states of mind, to illnesses, and to the invisible world beneath our skin. It shows how humours have been recycled, continually reappearing in new guises, ever-present within evolving scientific systems and medical cultures." (xix)