Год выпуска: 2008
Автор: Noga Arikha
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Страниц: 400
ISBN: 0060731176
Описание 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 merge. 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 exploresthe uncanny persistence of these variable, invisible fluids. It will change how we view our physical, mental, and emotional selves. |
