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Homo Patiens - Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World is a book about the patients of the Graeco-Roman world, their role in the ancient medical encounters and their relationship to the health providers and medical practitioners of their time. This volume makes a strong claim for the relevance of a patient-centred approach to the history of ancient medicine. Attention to the experience of patients deepens our understanding of ancient societies and their medical markets, and enriches our knowledge of the history of ancient cultures. It is a first step towards shaping a history of the ancient patient’s view, which will be of use not only to ancient historians, students of medical humanities, and historians of medicine, but also to any reader interested in medical ethics.

Physician and patient --- Medicine, Ancient. --- Medical ethics --- Relations médecin-patient --- Médecine ancienne --- Ethique médicale --- History. --- Histoire --- Medicine, Ancient --- History --- Relations médecin-patient --- Médecine ancienne --- Ethique médicale --- Ancient medicine --- Medicine --- Doctor and patient --- Doctor-patient relationships --- Patient and doctor --- Patient and physician --- Patient-doctor relationships --- Patient-physician relationships --- Patients and doctors --- Patients and physicians --- Physician-patient relationships --- Physicians and patients --- Interpersonal relations --- Fear of doctors --- Narrative medicine

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Human agents might not be the measure of all things. Nonetheless, human bodies, and their bodily dimensions, often are, with size impacting on the ways in which we conceive of, interact with, and relate to the world around us. The scaling up or down of features — magnification and miniaturization — is particularly evident in the creation of anthropogenic items intended for use in religious ritual, and here sizing can be employed as a deliberate strategy to encourage shock and awe, admiration and deterrence, among spectators.Taking as its starting point the concept of ‘materialities and meanings’, this volume explores how human perceptions and understanding of magnified and miniaturized forms and structures are shaped and changed, both synchronically and diachronically, by our understanding of the human body and its size, and the impact that this has in our relationship with the wider world in the context of ritual practices. The chapters collected here consider a range of questions, from a discussion on the essentials of magnification or miniaturization to an exploration of the impact of such strategies on humans and their wider socio-political ramifications. Together, these chapters contribute to a unique discussion that offers new insights into ‘materialities and meanings’, the creation of items for ritual, and the ways in which they influence human perception and understanding.

Material culture --- Religious aspects.

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Dossier : Il est bien connu que les textes et leur méditation sont une thérapie pour l’âme. Dans l’Antiquité, les médecins grecs et romains ont même considéré la lecture, la déclamation ou la création poétique comme des remèdes pour soigner les maladies du corps. Ce dossier de Mètis explore l’aspect paradoxal de ces conceptions anciennes qui lient la santé du corps à des activités littéraires et présupposent une physiologie de la lecture et de l’écriture. Il questionne cette forme de « bibliothérapie » cultivée par l’élite dans le monde gréco-romain, à travers les exemples de l’épistolographie (Cicéron), de la rhétorique (Aelius Théon, Aelius Aristide) et de la médecine (Aristote, Antylle, Oribase). Le dossier cartographie ces pratiques et conceptions de l’Antiquité pour nourrir les réflexions contemporaines sur la bibliothérapie, les potentialités perdues du littéraire ou la médecine holistique. Varia : Éléments de rituels (le chien guérisseur, les oiseaux migrants, le pais amphitalês, la supplication chez Euripide), effets d’intertextualité (Platon, Varron), questions d’historiographie aux lisières de la philosophie et de l’histoire des religions. It is well known that texts and the meditation on texts are a therapy for the soul. In Antiquity, Greek and Roman doctors even considered reading, declaming or creating poetry as remedies for healing the body. This dossier of Mètis explores the paradoxical aspect of these ancient conceptions that link the body’s health to literary activities and presuppose a physiology of reading and writing. It questions that form of « bibliotherapy » cultivated by the elite in the Greek and Roman world through the examples of epistolography (Cicero), rhetoric (Aelius Theon, Aelius Aristides) and medicine (Aristotle, Antyllus, Oribasius). The dossier maps these practices and conceptions of Antiquity in order to enrich contemporary reflexions on bibliotherapy, on the lost potentialities of the literary, or on holistic medicine.

Cultural studies --- bibliothérapie --- physiologie de la lecture --- écriture thérapeutique --- lecture curative --- élite gréco-romaine --- bibliotherapy --- reading physiology --- therapeutic writing --- curative reading --- greco-roman elite