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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463442703321

Autore

Hartigan Karelisa

Titolo

Performance and cure : drama and healing in ancient Greece and contemporary America / / Karelisa V. Hartigan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

1-84966-772-1

1-84966-774-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 124 p.)

Collana

Classical inter/faces series

Disciplina

882.0109

Soggetti

Greek drama - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-119) and index.

Nota di contenuto

I. Drama and Healing in Contemporary Medicine -- Relationship Between Mind and Body -- Art and Medicine -- II. Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece -- Cult of Asklepios -- The God -- The Process -- The Evidence -- The Sanctuaries -- Epidauros -- Other Major Healing Sites -- Regional Sites -- Local Sites -- Pausanias and Asklepios -- Athens -- III. Drama and Healing in the Contemporary American Hospital -- Case Study: Shands Hospital at the University of Florida -- IV. Asklepios Beyond the Classical World -- Asklepios and Jesus -- Healing Saints of the Greek Orthodox Church -- V. Conclusion and Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the role of drama in healing, from shrines of Asklepios in Ancient Greece to hospitals today. This book argues that a pageant which showed the enactment of the god healing prompted the dream therapy the patient experienced at the sanctuary.