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Preface and Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Abbreviations | p. xiii |
Note on Transliterations and Translations | p. xxiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Symptoms and Subjects | p. 1 |
Seeing through Symptoms | p. 9 |
The Physical Imagination | p. 19 |
Rethinking Soma and Psukhe | p. 29 |
Telling Stories | p. 37 |
Before the Physical Body | p. 41 |
Daemonic Violence | p. 48 |
The Seen and the Felt | p. 58 |
The Boundaries of the Felt | p. 64 |
Fear and the Visual Field of the Self | p. 69 |
How Gods Act | p. 73 |
The Seen Body and Social Agency | p. 76 |
Interpreting Disease and Practices of Healing | p. 79 |
The Inquiry into Nature and the Physical Imagination | p. 84 |
Depersonalizing Causes | p. 90 |
Natural Justice | p. 95 |
Melissus and the Denial of Body | p. 101 |
A Community of Objects | p. 108 |
Bodies, Persons, Knowledge | p. 116 |
Incorporating the Daemonic | p. 121 |
Symptoms at the Threshold of Seen and Unseen | p. 126 |
The Interval | p. 130 |
Explaining Disease | p. 133 |
The Dynamics of the Cavity | p. 138 |
The Automatic Body | p. 142 |
Signs of Life and Techniques of Taking Care | p. 148 |
The Prognostic Symptom: Forces of Life and Death | p. 150 |
Fragile Life | p. 156 |
On Ancient Medicine and the Discovery of Human Nature | p. 162 |
Embodiment, Knowledge, and Technical Agency | p. 171 |
Taking Care | p. 177 |
Shoring Up the Self | p. 182 |
Beyond the Soma: Therapies of the Psukhe | p. 192 |
Bodily Needs | p. 196 |
Psychic Desires | p. 202 |
Gorgias's Encomium to Helen and Human Diseases | p. 211 |
Psychic Disorder in Democritus | p. 216 |
Forces of Nature, Acts of Gods: Euripides' Symptoms | p. 228 |
The Polysemy of the Symptom | p. 233 |
Tragedy and the Interval | p. 239 |
Euripides' Causes: The Madness of Heracles | p. 242 |
Euripides' Causes: The Madness of Orestes | p. 246 |
Realizing Disease in the Hippolytus | p. 252 |
Daemonic Phusis | p. 260 |
The Semantics of Suffering | p. 265 |
Conclusion | p. 275 |
Bibliography | p. 281 |
Index Locorum | p. 325 |
General Index | p. 349 |
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