Presentation
Mental Health and the Weight of the Past: How Early Modern Physicians Read Greek Psychology [video]
John Martin Rare Book Room Presents, lecture (Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 10/18/2022)
10/18/2022
Abstract
This talk begins with a brief survey of the history of scientific discourse on mental health, then focuses on the intellectual and professional dilemma faced by early modern physicians: either repeat Greek psychology and suppress one’s own originality or challenge the giants of Greek medicine along with their scientific and cultural weight. The lecture tells the story of how some authors of the John Martin Rare Book Room collection grappled with the authority of the past against the backdrop of an area of medicine that is of great concern in our own time.
Closed captions available in English
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Mental Health and the Weight of the Past: How Early Modern Physicians Read Greek Psychology [video]
- Creators
- Jonathan A Reeder - University of Iowa, Classics
- Resource Type
- Presentation
- Event
- John Martin Rare Book Room Presents, lecture (Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 10/18/2022)
- Size
- 56:19 minutes
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2022 Jonathan A Reeder
- Comment
- In English with English closed captions available Recorded from Zoom presentation, 2560x1440, 25fps. 32khz, 126 kbps audio
- Language
- English
- Date presented
- 10/18/2022
- Description audience
- public
- Academic Unit
- Classics
- Record Identifier
- 9984317653902771
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