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The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity
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Cerebral subjectivityâthe identification of the individual self with the brainâis a belief that has become firmly entrenched in modern science and popular culture. In The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity, Jessica Wright traces its roots to tensions within early Christianity over the brain's role in self-governance and its inherent vulnerability. Examining how early Christians appropriated medical ideas, Wright tracks how they used these ideas for teaching ascetic practices, developing therapeutics for the soul, and finding a path to salvation. Bringing a medical lens to religious discourse, this text demonstrates that rather than rejecting medical traditions, early Christianity developed by creatively integrating them.
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- Imprint
- Subvention
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1.  The Circulation and Performance of Medical Knowledge in Late Antiquity
- 2.  The History of the Brain in Ancient Greek Medicine and Philosophy
- 3.  The Invention of Ventricular Localization
- 4.  The Governing Brain
- 5.  The Rhetoric of Cerebral Vulnerability
- 6.  Insanity, Vainglory, and Phrenitis
- 7.  Humanizing the Brain in Early Christianity
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index