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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459281603321
• Autore: Holmes Brooke <1976->
• 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.

Is China Over-Investing and Does it Matter? / / Il Lee, Murtaza Syed, Liu Xueyan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970584903321
• Autore: Lee Il
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012
• ISBN: 9781616357917; 1616357916; 9781475594713; 1475594712; 9781283947817; 1283947811
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (23 p.)
• Collana: IMF Working Papers; IMF working paper ; ; WP/12/277
• Altri autori (Persone): SyedMurtaza; XueyanLiu
• Disciplina: 346.73052
• Soggetti: Investments, Chinese - Econometric models; Economic development - China - Econometric models; Banks and Banking; Finance: General; Macroeconomics; Money and Monetary Policy; Industries: Financial Services; Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity; Welfare Economics: General; Intertemporal Consumer Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving; Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages; Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth; General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data); Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects; Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General; Financial Institutions and Services: General; Finance; Monetary economics; Consumption; Emerging and frontier financial markets; Real interest rates; Credit; Financial sector; Financial markets; National accounts; Financial services; Money; Economic sectors; Financial services industry; Economics; Interest rates; China, People's Republic of
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "November 2012" -- verso of t.p.; At head of title: Asia and Pacific Department -- verso of t.p.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; Figure; Figure 1. Gross Capital Formation, in percent GDP; II. Investment in China: Literature Review; III. Neoclassical Model Approach; Figure 2. Capital- and Investment-to-Output Ratio; Figure 3a. Growth and Capital-to-Output Ratio; Figure 3b. Growth and Investment-to-Output Ratio; IV. A Theoretical Framework of Optimal Investment; Figure 4a. Capital- and Investment-to-Output Ratio; Figure 4b. Capital- and Investment-to-Output Ratio; Figure 5a. Contribution of Investment to GDP growth; Figure 5b. Contribution to Growth (in percent of total); Figure 6. Production Function V. What Can Aggregate Cross-Country Data Tell Us?; Table; Table 1. Investment Equations 1/ 2/; Figure 7. China: Investment-to-GDP; Table 2. Probit: Probability of crisis; Table 3. Evolution of variables in the lead-up to crisis (5-years); VI. Estimating the Hidden Costs of China's Investment; Figure 9. Profit Margin and Credit allocation between LCs and SMEs; Figure 10. Resource transfers and dead weight loss; Figure 11. Estimated Amount of Resource Transfer from Households to Large Corporate (In percent of GDP); VII. Conclusion; Data Appendix; References
• Sommario/riassunto: Now close to 50 percent of GDP, this paper assesses the appropriateness of China’s current investment levels. It finds that China’s capital-to-output ratio is within the range of other emerging markets, but its economic growth rates stand out, partly due to a surge in investment over the last decade. Moreover, its investment is significantly higher than suggested by cross-country panel estimation. This deviation has been accumulating over the last decade, and at nearly 10 percent of GDP is now larger and more persistent than experienced by other Asian economies leading up to the Asian crisis. However, because its investment is predominantly financed by domestic savings, a crisis appears unlikely when assessed against dependency on external funding. But this does not mean that the cost is absent. Rather, it is distributed to other sectors of the economy through a hidden transfer of resources, estimated at an average of 4 percent of GDP per year.