Performance and cure : drama and healing in ancient Greece and contemporary America / / Karelisa V. Hartigan
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| Autore: |
Hartigan Karelisa
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| Titolo: |
Performance and cure : drama and healing in ancient Greece and contemporary America / / Karelisa V. Hartigan
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| Pubblicazione: | London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , [2009] |
| ©2009 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 124 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 882.0109 |
| Soggetto topico: | Greek drama - History and criticism |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Performance and cure |
| ISBN: | 1-84966-772-1 |
| 1-84966-774-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811844803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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