1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910293856303321

Autore

Rossi Monti, Mario

Titolo

Il suicidio / Mario Rossi Monti, Alessandra D'Agostino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Carocci editore, 2012

ISBN

978-88-430-6266-9

Descrizione fisica

124 p. ; 20 cm

Collana

Le bussole ; 440

Altri autori (Persone)

D'Agostino, Alessandra

Disciplina

616.858445

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

COLLEZ. 1952 (440)

Bussole 440

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Quali sono le ragioni che possono spingere un individuo a farla finita? Quali le categorie più colpite? Le donne o gli uomini? I giovani o gli anziani? I coniugati, i vedovi o i separati? Quale gruppo etnico è più esposto al rischio di suicidio? Queste sono alcune delle domande che il testo affronta, nella consapevolezza che ad alcune di esse è ancora difficile dare risposta e cercando comunque di tratteggiare  alcune linee di tendenza.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459281603321

Autore

Holmes Brooke <1976->

Titolo

The symptom and the subject [[electronic resource] ] : the emergence of the physical body in ancient Greece / / Brooke Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-64503-X

9786612645037

1-4008-3488-0

Edizione

[Core Textbook]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Disciplina

616/.047

Soggetti

Symptoms

Medicine, Greek and Roman

Human body - Greece

Electronic books.

Greece Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENT S -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliterations and Translations -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: Before the Physical Body -- CHAPTER TWO: The Inquiry into Nature and the Physical Imagination -- CHAPTER THREE: Incorporating the Daemonic -- CHAPTER FOUR: Signs of Life and Techniques of Taking Care -- CHAPTER FIVE: Beyond the Sōma: Therapies of the Psukhē -- CHAPTER SIX: Forces of Nature, Acts of Gods: Euripides' Symptoms -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with studies of early ethical philosophy and Euripidean tragedy, this book rewrites the traditional story of the rise of body-soul dualism in ancient Greece. Brooke Holmes demonstrates that as the body (sôma) became a subject of physical inquiry, it decisively changed ancient Greek ideas about the



meaning of suffering, the soul, and human nature. By undertaking a new examination of biological and medical evidence from the sixth through fourth centuries BCE, Holmes argues that it was in large part through changing interpretations of symptoms that people began to perceive the physical body with the senses and the mind. Once attributed primarily to social agents like gods and daemons, symptoms began to be explained by physicians in terms of the physical substances hidden inside the person. Imagining a daemonic space inside the person but largely below the threshold of feeling, these physicians helped to radically transform what it meant for human beings to be vulnerable, and ushered in a new ethics centered on the responsibility of taking care of the self. The Symptom and the Subject highlights with fresh importance how classical Greek discoveries made possible new and deeply influential ways of thinking about the human subject.