Passions And Tempers by Alba Arikha
A History of the Humours
A sweeping history of the ancient theory of the four humors—blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile—this work traces how it shaped medical practice, ideas of personality and emotion, and cultural attitudes from antiquity through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment to modern physiology and neuroscience. Drawing on case histories, philosophy, literature, and art, it shows how a once-dominant model of the body and mind was challenged and transformed, yet left a lasting imprint on the ways we still think about temperament, mood, and the body–mind connection.
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- 2007
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- American
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- English
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