Classical Greek Attitudes to Illness
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The history of Greek attitudes to illness is characterised throughout by two oppositions. One concerns aetiology (divine intervention or the operation of fully explicable natural forces) and treatment (by science or by magic). The other opposition concerns the role of the sick or disabled individual in the community : a liability, to be rejected as such, or a fellow-human deserving compassion. Classical Greek Attitudes to Illness, Vesalius, II, 1, 34 38,1996
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