Les voix de la douleur entre médecins et malades : le témoignage de l’Antiquité
Pain is omnipresent in ancient medical treatises, in so far as it constitutes one of the main symptoms, even sometimes the only symptom, on which the doctor can base a diagnosis and a therapeutic indication. But then and today, the only way for the doctor to reach the pain of the patient is essentia...
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| Language: | fra |
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Presses universitaires du Midi
2012-05-01
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| Series: | Pallas |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/2411 |
| Summary: | Pain is omnipresent in ancient medical treatises, in so far as it constitutes one of the main symptoms, even sometimes the only symptom, on which the doctor can base a diagnosis and a therapeutic indication. But then and today, the only way for the doctor to reach the pain of the patient is essentially through his speech. Thus is raised the question to know to what extent the words of the doctor correspond to the speech of the patient. Transcription ? Interpretation ? Rephrasing ? In other words, can we see behind the words of the doctor to reach the voice of the patient, which is often metaphorical and awkward since expressing pain is so difficult ? Such if the object of this research that we will conduct through three great men of ancient medicine, Hippocrates, Galen and Celsus. |
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| ISSN: | 0031-0387 2272-7639 |