Book ID: CBB642375976

The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity (2022)

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Jessica L. Wright (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 299
Language: English

Cerebral subjectivity—the identification of the individual self with the brain—is a belief that has become firmly entrenched in modern science and popular culture. In The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity, Jessica Wright traces its roots to tensions within early Christianity over the brain’s role in self-governance and its inherent vulnerability. Examining how early Christians appropriated medical ideas, Wright tracks how they used these ideas for teaching ascetic practices, developing therapeutics for the soul, and finding a path to salvation. Bringing a medical lens to religious discourse, this text demonstrates that rather than rejecting medical traditions, early Christianity developed by creatively integrating them.

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Authors & Contributors
Holmes, Brooke
Bartoš, Hynek
Bassiri, Nima
Bos, Abraham P.
Celesia, Gastone G.
El-Rouayheb, Khaled
Journals
Apeiron: Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science
Ancient Philosophy
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
History of Psychiatry
HOPOS
Publishers
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Washington
Manchester University Press
Princeton University Press
Simon & Schuster
Concepts
Soul (philosophy)
Mind and body
Brain
Medicine and religion
Medicine
Philosophy
People
Aristotle
Plato
Alcmaeon of Crotona
Artemidorus
Blavatsky, Helene Petrovna
Donne, John
Time Periods
Ancient
16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
Medieval
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Scotland
Salerno (Italy)
Institutions
Theosophical Society
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