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The Four Humors

Author : Mina Seckin
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1646221605
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Four Humors written by Mina Seckin and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wry and visceral debut novel follows a young Turkish-American woman who, rather than grieving her father's untimely death, seeks treatment for a stubborn headache and grows obsessed with a centuries-old theory of medicine. "[A] humane and refreshingly astringent novel." —Lauren LeBlanc, The New York Times Book Review Twenty-year-old Sibel thought she had concrete plans for the summer. She would care for her grandmother in Istanbul, visit her father’s grave, and study for the MCAT. Instead, she finds herself watching Turkish soap operas and self-diagnosing her own possible chronic illness with the four humors theory of ancient medicine. Also on Sibel’s mind: her blond American boyfriend who accompanies her to Turkey; her energetic but distraught younger sister; and her devoted grandmother, who, Sibel comes to learn, carries a harrowing secret. Delving into her family’s history, the narrative weaves through periods of political unrest in Turkey, from military coups to the Gezi Park protests. Told with pathos and humor, Sibel’s search for strange and unusual cures is disrupted as she begins to see how she might heal herself through the care of others, including her own family and its long-fractured relationships.

The Chinese HEART in a Cognitive Perspective

Author : Ning Yu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110213346
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese HEART in a Cognitive Perspective written by Ning Yu and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cognitive semantic study of the Chinese conceptualization of the heart, traditionally seen as the central faculty of cognition. The Chinese word xin, which primarily denotes the heart organ, covers the meanings of both "heart" and "mind" as understood in English, which upholds a heart-head dichotomy. In contrast to the Western dualist view, Chinese takes on a more holistic view that sees the heart as the center of both emotions and thought. The contrast characterizes two cultural traditions that have developed different conceptualizations of person, self, and agent of cognition. The concept of "heart" lies at the core of Chinese thought and medicine, and its importance to Chinese culture is extensively manifested in the Chinese language. Diachronically, this book traces the roots of its conception in ancient Chinese philosophy and traditional Chinese medicine. Along the synchronic dimension, it not only makes a systematic analysis of conventionalized expressions that reflect the underlying cultural models and conceptualizations, as well as underlying conceptual metaphors and metonymies, but also attempts a textual analysis of an essay and a number of poems for their metaphoric and metonymic images and imports contributing to the cultural models and conceptualizations. It also takes up a comparative perspective that sheds light on similarities and differences between Western and Chinese cultures in the understanding of the heart, brain, body, mind, self, and person. The book contributes to the understanding of the embodied nature of human cognition situated in its cultural context, and the relationship between language, culture, and cognition.

The Four Temperaments

Author : Randy Rolfe
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781569245620
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Four Temperaments written by Randy Rolfe and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an ancient way, Rolfe shows how to identify one's own temperament to dramatically improve health, relationships, career, and happiness with a basic understanding of the four temperaments. 30 illustrations.

Shakespeare's Words

Author : Ben Crystal
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141941529
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Words written by Ben Crystal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address. Plot summaries are included for all Shakespeare's plays and on the facing page is a unique diagramatic representation of the relationships within each play.

Humoring the Body

Author : Gail Kern Paster
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226648486
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Humoring the Body written by Gail Kern Paster and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism—blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm—early modern thought found in these bodily fluids key to explaining human emotions and behavior. In Humoring the Body, Gail Kern Paster proposes a new way to read the emotions of the early modern stage so that contemporary readers may recover some of the historical particularity in early modern expressions of emotional self-experience. Using notions drawn from humoral medical theory to untangle passages from important moral treatises, medical texts, natural histories, and major plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Paster identifies a historical phenomenology in the language of affect by reconciling the significance of the four humors as the language of embodied emotion. She urges modern readers to resist the influence of post-Cartesian abstraction and the disembodiment of human psychology lest they miss the body-mind connection that still existed for Shakespeare and his contemporaries and constrained them to think differently about how their emotions were embodied in a premodern world.

Tell Me How to Be

Author : Neel Patel
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250184967
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Tell Me How to Be written by Neel Patel and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * INAUGURAL LILLY'S LIBRARY BOOK CLUB PICK FROM LILLY SINGH * “A beautiful book about a mother and son...I really loved this book.”—Rumaan Alam on The TODAY Show “My first great read of 2022...[Will] make you cringe with recognition and melt with longing.” —Jennifer Weiner “This debut novel about an Indian-American family has all the right ingredients: family secrets, love, sexuality, loss, identity questions and remorse.” —Good Morning America Renu Amin always seemed perfect. But as the one-year anniversary of her husband’s death approaches, she is binge-watching soap operas and simmering with old resentments. She can’t stop wondering if, thirty-five years ago, she chose the wrong life. In Los Angeles, her son, Akash, has everything he ever wanted, but he is haunted by the painful memories he fled a decade ago. When his mother tells him she is selling the family home, Akash returns to Illinois, hoping to finally say goodbye and move on. Together, Renu and Akash pack up the house, retreating further into the secrets that stand between them. Renu sends an innocent Facebook message to the man she almost married, sparking an emotional affair that calls into question everything she thought she knew about herself. Akash slips back into bad habits as he confronts his darkest secrets—including what really happened between him and the first boy who broke his heart. When their pasts catch up to them, Renu and Akash must decide between the lives they left behind and the ones they’ve since created, between making each other happy and setting themselves free. By turns irreverent and tender, filled with the beats of ’90s R&B, Tell Me How to Be is about our earliest betrayals and the cost of reconciliation. But most of all, it is the love story of a mother and son each trying to figure out how to be in the world.

A Brief History of Medicine

Author : Paul Strathern
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Medicine written by Paul Strathern and published by Constable. This book was released on 2005 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes: Inspired geniuses, such as Paracelsus, the father of medical chemistry, and Edward Jenner, who discovered the smallpox vaccination; Cuthroat competition, as during the 'Gas Wars' over who'd invented the anaesthetic, Scientific endeavour, such as the discovery of X-rays; Mistakes both fortunate and fatal, Anatomy,.

Galen’s Theory of Black Bile

Author : Keith Andrew Stewart
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004382798
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Galen’s Theory of Black Bile written by Keith Andrew Stewart and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Galen’s Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation Keith Stewart analyses Galen’s characterisation of black bile to understand the different ways it is used in his arguments that cannot always be reconciled with the content of his sources.

Bright Burning Things

Author : Lisa Harding
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063097176
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Bright Burning Things written by Lisa Harding and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY * A PEOPLE MAGAZINE PICK * AN INDIE NEXT PICK * A LIBRARYREADS PICK *AN AMAZON EDITORS PICK “On every page there are little shimmering bombs. Like Room, where parenthood is at once your jail and your salvation, it is almost claustrophobic—but in the most glorious way.”—Lisa Taddeo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Women and Animal A rising international literary star makes her American debut with this visceral, tender, and brave portrait of addiction, recovery, and motherhood, as harrowing and intense as Shuggie Bain. Sonya used to perform on stage. She used to attend glamorous parties, date handsome men, ride in fast cars. But somewhere along the way, the stage lights Sonya lived for dimmed for good. In their absence, came darkness—blackouts, empty cupboards, hazy nights she can't remember. What keeps Sonya from losing herself completely is Tommy, her son. But her immense love for Tommy is in fierce conflict with her immense love of the bottle. Addiction amplifies her fear of losing her child; every maternal misstep compels her to drink. Tommy’s precious life is in her shaky hands. Eventually Sonya is forced to make a choice. Give up drinking or lose Tommy—forever. Bright Burning Things is an emotional tour-de-force—a devastating, nuanced, and ultimately hopeful look at an addict’s journey towards rehabilitation and redemption. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Washington Post, The Millions, PopSugar, Shondaland, Good Morning America, Nylon, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country

Passions and Tempers

Author : Noga Arikha
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061973017
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Passions and Tempers written by Noga Arikha and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Passions and Tempers may excite passions and tempers in some of its readers, as a good work of intellectual history should. You will learn a lot from its pages.” —Washington Post The humours—blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler—were substances thought to circulate within the body and determine a person’s health, mood, and character. The theory of humours remained an inexact but powerful tool for centuries, surviving scientific changes and offering clarity to physicians. This one-of-a-kind book follows the fate of these variable and invisible fluids from their Western origin in ancient Greece to their present-day versions. It traces their persistence from medical guidebooks of the past to current health fads, from the testimonies of medical doctors to the theories of scientists, physicians, and philosophers. By intertwining the histories of medicine, science, psychology, and philosophy, Noga Arikha revisits and revises how we think about all aspects of our physical, mental, and emotional selves.

Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy

Author : Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3319141694
Total Pages : 3618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy written by Marco Sgarbi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 3618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.

Avicenna on the Four Humours: Sanguineous/Serous/Bilious/Atrabilious/Blood/Phlegm/Yellow Bile/Black Bile

Author : Laleh Bakhtiar
Publisher : Kazi Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781567449945
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Avicenna on the Four Humours: Sanguineous/Serous/Bilious/Atrabilious/Blood/Phlegm/Yellow Bile/Black Bile written by Laleh Bakhtiar and published by Kazi Publications. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After describing the nature of the humours and their types, Avicenna in his Law of Natural Healing (Canon of Medicine), Lecture 4, goes into detail about each of the four humours and how they are produced. It also contains O. Cameron Gruner's extensive endnotes.

The Four Temperaments

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : SteinerBooks
ISBN 13 : 0880106980
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Four Temperaments written by Rudolf Steiner and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 1985 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between individual characteristics and those of the human race in general lie the four main groups of human temperaments: phlegmmatic, sanguine, melancholic, and choleric. Rudolf Steiner describes how each person's combination of temperaments is shaped out of a particular kind of union between hereditary factors and the inner spiritual nature. Telling descriptions are provided for the inwardly comfortable phlegmatic, the fickle interest of the sanguine, the pained and gloomy melancholic, and the fiery, assertive choleric. Steiner also offers practical suggestions for guiding the temperaments educationally in childhood and for adult self-improvement.

The Decade of Medicine Or the Physician of the Rich and the Poor

Author : Francois Duport
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783642737169
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book The Decade of Medicine Or the Physician of the Rich and the Poor written by Francois Duport and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Every Man in His Humour

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Every Man in His Humour written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage

Author : Amy Kenny
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303005201X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage written by Amy Kenny and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the humoral womb was evoked, enacted, and embodied on the Shakespearean stage by considering the intersection of performance studies and humoral theory. Galenic naturalism applied the four humors—yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood—to delineate women as porous, polluting, and susceptible to their environment. This book draws on early modern medical texts to provocatively demonstrate how Shakespeare’s canon offers a unique agency to female characters via humoral discourse of the womb. Chapters discuss early modern medicine’s attempt to theorize and interpret the womb, specifically its role in disease, excretion, and conception, alongside passages of Shakespeare’s plays to offer a fresh reading of (geo)humoral subjectivity. The book shows how Shakespeare subversively challenges contemporary notions of female fluidity by accentuating the significance of the womb as a source of self-defiance and autonomy for female characters across his canon.

Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen

Author : Jacques Jouanna
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004208593
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen written by Jacques Jouanna and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes available in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on Greek and Roman medicine, ranging from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity.