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Therapy of the word and other psychotherapeutic approaches in Ancient Greek medicine [PDF]
Transcultural Psychiatry, 2020 One of the most distinctive aspects of contemporary psychiatry is its firm grounding in a neurological and biochemical framework for the interpretation of mental life and its disturbances. In the absence of any strong neurological understanding or systematic knowledge of active pharmaceutical substances, one might expect that early ancient medicine ...
Chiara Thumiger
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Greek Medicine Practice at Ancient Rome: The Physician Molecularist Asclepiades [PDF]
Medicines, 2017 Background: In the pre-Hellenistic period, the concept of medicine was not well-defined. Usually, a disease was considered as a divine punishment and its treatment was devolved to the priests who asked for healing from the divinities.
Luigi Santacroce +2 more
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Ethics in ancient Greek medicine [PDF]
Archives of the Balkan Medical Union, 2018 The ethical medical code which was born in ancient Greece had durable grounds and survived in the medical profession until today. These ethical standards of the physicians were gradually formulated during antiquity.
Evangelia-Eleni DEMOU +2 more
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Ancient Greek in modern language of medicine [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2007 In order to standardize language of medicine, it is essential to have a good command of ancient Greek and Latin. We cannot deny a huge impact of ancient Greek medicine on medical terminology.
Marković Vera
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The ancient Greek roots of the term Toxic
Toxicology Reports, 2021 In ancient Greek literature the adjective toxic (Greek: τoξικόν) derives from the noun τόξo, that is the arc. This noun according to the Liddell – Scott – Jones lexicon had several meanings. Apart from the meaning that someone is able to use a bow or the
Konstantinos Laios +4 more
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Health, Economics and Ancient Greek Medicine [PDF]
Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 2011 A period of two and a half millennia separates us from the Classical period of ancient Greece. Nevertheless, looking at ancient Greek medicine from the perspective of modern health economics is an interesting endeavour in that it increases our understanding of the ancient world and provides insights into contemporary society.
Carl Hampus Lyttkens
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The Role of Ancient Greek Physicians in the Development of Tracheostomy: Pioneering Airway Interventions and Early Thoracic Surgery [PDF]
Clinics and PracticeTracheostomy, a critical airway intervention, has a long and complex history that dates back to antiquity. While the earliest references to the procedure appear in Egyptian and Indian medical texts, its development within ancient Greek medicine remains a
Vasileios Leivaditis +8 more
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Status of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Greece and its Approach on COVID-19 Pandemic
Chinese Medicine and Culture, 2021 Although acupuncture was first introduced to Greece in about 1938, it was not until 1973 that an institution was created to teach it, where its study was limited to medical doctors (MDs). Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) was not taught to non-MDs until
Grivas Constantinos +4 more
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The ancient Greek origins of sports medicine. [PDF]
British Journal of Sports Medicine, 1976 exaly +3 more sources
Das Asklepieion in Pergamon zwischen Religion und Medizin
Godišnjak, 2022 The paper has the task of analyzing the relationship between religion and medicine in the ancient city of Pergamon, primarily in the early days of the Roman emperors, analyzing the cult of Asklepios, one of the central cults, also known for its widely ...
Milan Kostrešević
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