Detalls del llibre
Physicians in ancient Greece believed four humours flowed within the human body?blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler?determining a person's health, mood, and character. Not until the seventeenth century would a more complex view of the anatomy begin to emerge. But by then humoural theory had already become deeply ingrained in Western language and thought?and endures to this day in surprising ways.
Interweaving the histories of medicine, science, psychology, and philosophy, Passions and Tempers explores the uncanny persistence of these variable, invisible fluids. It will change how we view our physical, mental, and emotional selves.
- Autor/a Noga Arikha
- ISBN13 9780060731175
- ISBN10 0060731176
- Pàgines 400
- Any Edició 2008
- Fecha de publicación 22/07/2008
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours (Alemany, Francès)
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- Noga Arikha
- 9780060731175



