TY  - CHAP
A1  - Markschies, Christoph
T1  - Menschenbilder – Gesundheitsbilder: Beispiele ihres Verhältnisses aus der Antike und deren Bedeutung für die Gegenwart
T2  - Was ist Gesundheit? : Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven aus Medizin, Geschichte und Kultur
N2  - Concepts of Man – Concepts of Health: A Glimpse of Their Relationship in Antiquity With Relevance to Our Day and Age. Referring to ancient miraculous healing narratives, this article argues that concepts of health are inextricably intertwined with concepts of man. However, the relatively autonomous idea of medical treatments based on scientific reasoning is not an invention of modern secularization. It already existed in antiquity – even among people of faith. Gods and other religious authorities were regarded as mediating factors; they were not held responsible for diseases or cures. Examples from Christian and pagan traditions show that the interplay between ideas of man and concepts of health were extremely complex and diverse. Obviously, this was true already in antiquity – but it is even more evident in the present. Dualistic confrontations (e. g., pre-modern versus modern times, pre-scientific healing vs. academic medicine) are of little help to achieve universal health care and global health.
KW  - Antike
KW  - Arzt
KW  - Christentum
KW  - Laienmedizin
KW  - Religion
KW  - Theodosius
KW  - Ritual
KW  - Seele
KW  - Seelsorge
KW  - Wunder
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://edoc.bbaw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3661
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b4-opus4-36619
SN  - 9783110713336
SP  - 82
EP  - 94
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin, Boston
ER  -