The Four Humors
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The Four Humors
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Author : Mina Seckin
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2022-11-08
The Four Humors written by Mina Seckin and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-08 with Fiction categories.
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
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Author : Ning Yu
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009-02-26
The Chinese Heart In A Cognitive Perspective written by Ning Yu and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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
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Author : Randy Rolfe
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2002
The Four Temperaments written by Randy Rolfe and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Health & Fitness categories.
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.
Passions And Tempers
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Author : Noga Arikha
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-02-20
Passions And Tempers written by Noga Arikha and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-20 with History categories.
“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.
Humoring The Body
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Author : Gail Kern Paster
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15
Humoring The Body written by Gail Kern Paster and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
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
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Author : Neel Patel
language : en
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Release Date : 2021-12-07
Tell Me How To Be written by Neel Patel and has been published by Flatiron Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with Fiction categories.
* 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.
Galen S Theory Of Black Bile
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Author : Keith Andrew Stewart
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-10-22
Galen S Theory Of Black Bile written by Keith Andrew Stewart and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-22 with Medical categories.
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.
Shakespeare S Words
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Author : Ben Crystal
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2004-04-01
Shakespeare S Words written by Ben Crystal and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Greek Medicine From Hippocrates To Galen
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Author : Jacques Jouanna
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-07-25
Greek Medicine From Hippocrates To Galen written by Jacques Jouanna and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-25 with History categories.
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.
The Decade Of Medicine Or The Physician Of The Rich And The Poor
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Author : Francois Duport
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-09-01
The Decade Of Medicine Or The Physician Of The Rich And The Poor written by Francois Duport and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with categories.