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Reingold, Nathan. "On Not Doing the Papers of Great Scientists." British Journal for the History of Science 20, no. 1 (January 1987): 29–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400000479.

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Two analogies are at the foundation of editions of writings of scientists, technologists and physicians. Both are exemplified in the collection of ‘works’, texts of printed finished versions of contributions. The literary analogy is that of authorship, of the creation of a significant assemblage of words and other symbols. Assemblages of monographs and articles of a scientist are functionally no different than comparable arrays of the writings of theologians, philosophers, poets, novelists and historians.

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Flaherty, Gloria. "Empathy and Distance: Romantic Theories of Acting Reconsidered." Theatre Research International 15, no. 2 (1990): 125–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883300009226.

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Works dealing with the actor proliferated during the early decades of German Romanticism. Actors had come to be viewed as role models whose very costumes, hairstyles, and mannerisms often influenced prevailing fashions or, at least, gave them specific labels from particular plays. Popular interest in everything having to do with people of the theatre was seconded by contemporary poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, professors, and physicians. While some of their writings concentrated on historical and philosophical concerns, others investigated anthropological and psychiatric as well as medical ones. And contemporary actors themselves contributed publications about the ways, means, and consequences of playing roles in public.

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Adler, Shoshana. "Spoiled History: Leprosy and the Lessons of Queer Medieval Historiography." boundary 2 50, no. 3 (August 1, 2023): 211–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-10472443.

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Abstract White supremacists fetishize the crusading knight; queer theorists claim an identification with the generative secret of the premodern sodomite. This essay attends to the epistemological circuits of transhistorical identification, examining the claims of recursive history and the theories of attachment betrayed by identification with the medieval past. Turning away from the solicitations of the crusader and the sodomite, the essay excavates histories of emotional attachment to the leper, a medieval figure whose status as abject incarnation of historical distance helps reconfigure transhistoric emotional identification. In medieval texts, the leper's ruined face scripts styles of recognition. In the medical writings of nineteenth-century imperial physicians, the medieval leper is used in negotiating fears of disease outbreaks in various colonies. The leper therefore comes to assume the status of reassuring historical distance as a result of imperial ideological needs. Attention to the circuits of desire that animate claims to the past on the basis of identification and personal attachment can account for the attraction the Middle Ages exerts on both medievalists and white supremacists.

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Zibaev, Anton, and Valentina Zhukova. "Forms of Plague in Procopius of Caesarea (Procop. De bellis. IV.14) and Evagrius Scholasticus (Evagrius. Hist. ecc. IV.29): On the Development of Clinical Medicine in the Eastern Roman Empire in the Fourth Century." Hypothekai 6 (2022): 158–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.32880/2587-7127-2022-6-6-158-186.

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The article discusses the forms of plague through the eyes of the contemporaries of the first pandemic known in historiography as "Justinian’s Plague". The Latin authors of the 6th-8th centuries did not provide detailed descriptions of the previously unknown disease and limited themselves to brief mentions of the pestilence outbreaks in various areas of the Mediterranean. Following the laws of the genre of chronicle narrative (chronicles), they could only state the fact of the spread of a major epidemic in the known world, refraining from emotional remarks. The Greek writings of the 6th century contain more detailed descriptions of the plague symptoms, which allows us to largely restore the course of the disease as it was seen by late antique physicians. Procopius of Caesarea and Evagrius Scholasticus’s reports are based on the description of external symptoms, followed by the identification of key terms that describe patients’ general condition. The first cycle of the pandemic (mid 6th century) was distinguished by early attempts to study the plague in the texts. They were accompanied by intricate and often contradictory speculations of contemporaries, with the subsequent identification of three forms of plague in the patients in Constantinople and the eastern provinces. 50 years later (in the third cycle), the Greek authors already distinguished five forms of the disease with a strict definition of the accompanying symptoms and the absence of panic, which had been noticeable in the previous period. The analysis of narrative sources allows us to conclude that late antique and early medieval authors did not know the pneumonic form of plague, in contrast to the Black Death era. For comparison, in the XIV century. Byzantine authors referred to the symptoms of the Black Death in similar terms, and used the same literary devices to describe the devastation of Constantinople and Greece. For the first time, the pulmonary form is singled out separately only in the 14th century: in the “Histories” of John Kantakuzen, in the letters of Demetrius Cydonis and Nicephorus Grigora. Thus, the conclusion is made about the gradual accumulation of general knowledge about the clinical picture of Justinian’s Plague among late antique physicians, whose works prominent representatives of Greek and Latin historiography of the 6th-8th centuries relied on.

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Courteau, Catherine, and Laurence Laneuville. "Reading Patients: Our Story of Narrative Medicine." International Journal of Whole Person Care 7, no. 1 (January 15, 2020): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/ijwpc.v7i1.232.

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As Dr. Rita Charon, pioneer of the field of narrative medicine, said “Literary accounts of illness can teach physicians concrete and powerful lessons about the lives of sick people” but also “enable physicians to recognize the power and implications of what they do” (Charon et al, 1995).Through various narrative medicine exercises, we have explored the benefits of narrative medicine for health care professionals. More specifically, we have created a reading club for medical students and developed a reading module as part of the Physician Apprenticeship Course for medical students at McGill University. Moreover, we led short writing workshops based on prompts from short stories and poems for health care professionals at Anna-Laberge Hospital.During our workshop, we will briefly review our narrative medicine initiatives and then dive into a narrative medicine exercise with the group to demonstrate its potential benefits among health care professionals. We hope that by providing concrete examples of narrative medicine projects we have developed and implemented, we will facilitate the integration of narrative medicine into participants’ own practices.

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Więckiewicz, Agnieszka. "Między wyobraźnią romantyczną a literacką moderną. Georg Groddeck w lustrze psychoanalizy." Schulz/Forum, no. 13 (October 28, 2019): 144–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/sf.2019.13.11.

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The aim of the present paper is to introduce the theory of a German physician and so-called “wild psychoanalyst” Georg Groddeck. During World War I, after contacting Sigmund Freud, Groddeck has started to develop his own psychoanalytic theory in his scientific as well as literary writings. In 1923 he published a novel entitled The Book of the It (Das Buch vom Es), in which he discussed and reinterpreted Freud’s theory. By introducing the category of the “It” (das Es), Groddeck aimed to elaborate on Freud’s concept of the unconscious, which he considered too restricted and reduced to what the Viennese psychoanalyst defined as the conscious and the preconscious. The author points out to the importance of the discussion between Freud and Groddeck, which began as early as in 1917 in their letters. The publication of The Book of the It coincide with Freud’s treatise The Ego and the Id (Das Ich und das Es) written the same year. The author analyzes the similarities as well as the differences between Freud’s and Groddeck’s concepts of the It (das Es). Groddeck’s theory is presented in the light of German philosophical and literary tradition. The paper addresses the problem of Groddeck modernist writing strategies, such as combining psychoanalysis with literature and with different life-writing genres which are seen as his way to create a new language in the scientific discourse of his time. The author emphasizes the importance of two main categories in Groddeck’s writings, which have animated his entire theory. One is imagination, deeply rooted in romanticism, the other is self-analysis related to the modernist understanding of autobiography. While imagination represents Groddeck’s general doubt in the objectivity of science, especially in a linear progress in medicine, self-analysis is linked to his conviction that every discourse – not only literary, but also philosophical or psychoanalytic, has an autobiographical, hence also intimate dimension.

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Graham, S. Scott. "The Opioid Epidemic and the Pursuit of Moral Medicine: A Computational-Rhetorical Analysis." Written Communication 38, no. 1 (July 29, 2020): 3–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741088320944918.

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This article offers a longitudinal computational-rhetorical analysis of biomedical writing on opioids. Using a corpus of 1,467 articles and essays published in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association between 1959 and May 2019, this study evaluates diachronic shifts in (a) the framing of opioid pharmacology, (b) the relative attention paid to pain management versus opioid dependence risks, and (c) the distribution of statements related to physicians’ primary ethical obligations. The results of these analyses largely disconfirm different current accounts of shifting physician rhetoric around opioids and pain management leading up to the recognition opioid epidemic. Most notably, the results also suggest that biomedical debates surrounding opioids are serving as proxy arguments for shifting primary bioethical obligations from individual patients to public health.

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BRAY, JULIA. "Literary Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern Arabic Biography." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 20, no. 3 (June 4, 2010): 237–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186310000015.

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AbstractArabic biographical writing is much used as a historical source, and scholars agree that its textuality must be taken into account in evaluating its content. There is less agreement, though, on the importance of thoroughly understanding the range of processes of literary composition used by biographers. This article approaches three sets of biographies from a purely literary viewpoint: two medieval sketches of women, a Sufi and a songstress respectively; three seventeenth-century hagiographies of the physician and theosopher Dāwud al-Anṭākī; and a thirteenth-century portrait of one man of letters, al-Qifṭī, by another, Yāqūt. It concludes that the art and care devoted to shaping such commemorations of individuals is evidence of the aesthetic and cultural importance of biography as an Arabic literary genre.

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Daniel C. Bryant. "A Roster of Twentieth-Century Physicians Writing in English." Literature and Medicine 13, no. 2 (1994): 284–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lm.2010.0003.

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Charise, Andrea, and Stefan Krecsy. "The Manual of Disaster: Creativity, Preparedness, and Writing the Emergency Room." University of Toronto Quarterly Forthcoming (July 16, 2021): e2021002. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.91.1.002.

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This essay offers a critical examination of creativity discourse at the intersection of two discipli-nary fields: health and humanities. In contrast to creativity’s longstanding associations with mak-ing, imitation, or invention, we examine the relatively recent emergence of what we call creativi-ty’s preparatory capacity, particularly within critical discussions of healthcare and illness narratives. Working with fictional representations of the emergency room in physician-writer Jay Baruch’s short story collection Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers (2007), we identify how particular narrative techniques are revealed in a range of emergency scenarios—both within and beyond the fictional setting—and what such deployments of creativity might signal for the future of literary studies more broadly.

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Reeher, Jennifer M. "“The Despair of the Physician”: Centering Patient Narrative through the Writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1523435451243392.

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1942-, LaCombe Michael A., and Elpern David J, eds. Osler's bedside library: Great writers who inspired a great physician. Philadelphia: ACP Press, 2010.

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1942-, LaCombe Michael A., and Elpern David J, eds. Osler's bedside library: Great writers who inspired a great physician. Philadelphia: ACP Press, 2010.

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1942-, LaCombe Michael A., and Elpern David J, eds. Osler's bedside library: Great writers who inspired a great physician. Philadelphia: ACP Press, 2010.

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1942-, LaCombe Michael A., and Elpern David J, eds. Osler's bedside library: Great writers who inspired a great physician. Philadelphia: ACP Press, 2010.

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1942-, LaCombe Michael A., and Elpern David J, eds. Osler's bedside library: Great writers who inspired a great physician. Philadelphia: ACP Press, 2010.

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The best American medical writing 2009. New York: Kaplan Pub., 2009.

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Jones, Catherine. Writer-Physicians. Edited by David Duff. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660896.013.23.

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The study of literature and medicine in the Romantic period is an established and expanding field. However, scholars have tended to focus on a few canonical writers and a small number of texts, thereby obscuring the age’s huge diversity of medical writing. This chapter takes a wider view, presenting five case studies of medically trained or medically connected writers who demonstrate the broad intersection between medical and literary culture: John Aikin, Benjamin Rush, Joanna Baillie (sister of the physician Matthew Baillie), Erasmus Darwin, and John Keats. The chapter uses these case studies to show what is distinctive or innovative about interactions between literature and medicine in the period. The case studies also represent different genres of medical literature, or different genres that became in some sense medicalized: biography, autobiography, drama, didactic poetry, and epic. Each case study includes some consideration of the reception history of the genre in question.

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Osler's bedside library: Great writers who inspired a great physician. Philadelphia: ACP Press, 2010.

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Coyer, Megan. Professionalisation and the Case of Samuel Warren’s Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474405607.003.0005.

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This chapter reads Samuel Warren’s Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician (1830–7) in its vexed original publishing context – the ideologically charged popular periodical press – in terms of its inception and reception, as well as its initiation of a new genre of ‘medico-popular’ writing, and places this reading in relation to debates surrounding the professionalisation of medicine. The political significance of the original intention to publish the series within the New Monthly Magazine is discussed. Within Blackwood’s, the series is read as a new development of the tale of terror, in which the genre re-coalesces with the case history, a continuation of the morally didactic and implicitly conservative mode of John Wilson’s proto-Kailyard writings, and an idealistic and politicised depiction of a literary and gentlemanly medical man. With its avowed mission to reunite intellect and feeling, Blackwood’s provided an apt platform for the construction of a professional medical man of feeling, following in the tradition of medical ethics initiated by John Gregory (1724–73). However, the reception of the controversial series, as tracked both through letters, reviews, parodies, and imitations, reveals that Warren’s series may be read as both contributing to and detracting from the agenda of professionalisation.

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Wissenstransfer und Popularkultur in der Frühaufklärung: Leben und Werk des Arztschriftstellers Christoph Von Hellwig. de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, 2017.

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Book chapters on the topic "Physicians' literary writings"

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Tsentourou, Naya. "‘Let Lovers Sigh Out the Rest’: Witnessing the Breath in the Early Modern Emotional Body." In The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine, 175–93. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4_9.

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AbstractThis essay examines how breath is observed, recorded, and accounted for in cases of love melancholy in early modern literary and medical texts. It draws on the poetry of George Herbert and the works of Robert Burton and Jacques Ferrand on lovesickness to argue that writing on the respiration of the melancholic lover in the Renaissance involves a process of performative displacement as well as entanglement, most visible in the practice of intertextuality. As Tsentourou shows, intertextual references to emotional breathing blur the binary between patient and physician, casting bodies and texts as spaces where the detached witness conspires with the lovesick subject, and, in turn, with the reader.

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El Shakry, Hoda. "Existential Poiesis in Maḥmud al-Masʿadī’s Mawlid al-nisyān." In The Literary Qur'an, 37–57. Fordham University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823286362.003.0002.

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Chapter 1 examines Tunisian intellectual Maḥmūd al-Masʿadī’s 1945 mythical novella Mawlid al-Nisyān [the Genesis of Forgetfulness] about a physician on a spiritual quest for a drug to defeat time. Maḥmūd al-Masʿadī (1911–2004) was a prolific writer, educator, editor, trade unionist, and government official. The novella integrates Sufi philosophy, existentialism, and humanism in its exploration of the relationship between the human and divine. The chapter frames these concerns within the novella’s Qurʾanic intertextuality and al-Masʿadī’s broader philosophical writings on Islam and literature. Across his critical and literary oeuvre, al-Masʿadī explores literature as a creative praxis that speaks to broader existential and humanist concerns. Crowned the founder of “Muslim Existentialism,” he theorizes Islam as a philosophy of existence intimately connected to the artistic process. The chapter reads his novella Mawlid al-Nisyān as a Sufi spiritual journey that explores creation as an ethical imperative of human existence.

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"Translations from Galen: Exhortation to Study the Liberal Arts, Especially Medicine; The Best Kind of Teaching; The Proper Physician / Ex Galeno versa: Exhortatio ad bonas artes, praesertim medidnae; De optimo docendi genere; Qualem oporteat esse medicum." In Literary and Educational Writings 7. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442676688-011.

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Williams, Nerys. "Every cloud has a silver lining … even a failed private practice." In Why I Became an Occupational Physician and Other Occupational Health Stories, 78. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198862543.003.0063.

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In Every cloud has a silver lining … even a failed private practice Nerys Williams briefly explores the professional life of a man who is struggling to balance his medical career with his love for writing. It tells of how the result of having failed in more than one medical practice may result in literary fame.

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Van De Mieroop, Marc. "Omen Lists in Babylonian Culture." In Philosophy before the Greeks. Princeton University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691157184.003.0004.

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This chapter examines Babylonian divinatory writings that guided the interpretation of the signs of the gods, with particular emphasis on the omen lists. These writings are overly abundant and highly systematized, and they fit perfectly within Babylonian philosophy in general. They can be interpreted as the height of Babylonian writings on epistemology, as they provide the most detailed evidence on the hermeneutical systems behind knowledge—albeit of something we do not consider knowable. The chapter first provides an overview of divination as practiced by ancient Babylonians before turning to the divination specialists in Assurbanipal’s court—scribes, haruspices, exorcists, physicians, and lamentation chanters—and their texts to show how highly educated they were and how literate the nature of their knowledge was.

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Pladek, Brittany. "Therapeutic Holism." In Poetics of Palliation, 29–64. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786942210.003.0002.

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This chapter historicizes therapeutic holism, the model of literary therapy The Poetics of Palliation challenges. Beyond the faith that literature and its tools can heal, therapeutic holism reflects three guiding assumptions: first, that healthy people are wholes whose unity depends on an anti-dualist, teleological self-concept; second, that broken holism is mended by literature through a dialectic process of reintegration; and third, that the holism of functioning individuals both parallels and is constructed by the holism of their society. The chapter illustrates therapeutic holism’s Romantic genealogy by comparing its appearance in health humanities scholarship with Romantic writing, particularly the organicist tradition of German Romantics like Friedrich Schiller. Along the way, it reviews the history of nineteenth-century medical ethics that forms the interdisciplinary background to the rest of the book, including a discussion of ethics’ role in medical professionalization; the history of palliative care; and the tradition of advocating education in the humanities as a way to ‘humanize’ physicians.

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Constantinesco, Thomas. "Pain, Will, and Writing in the Diary of Alice James." In Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States, 173–202. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855596.003.0007.

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This chapter returns to the challenges of the sentimental response to pain through a reading of Alice James’s diary, in which she meditates on her invalidism and her alleged hysteria. First reading the diary as an introspective exercise and an enterprise in self-recovery from pain, it then follows the movement of James’s writing as it turns away from the pain of bodily deterioration and toward the enjoyable “drama of life” outside the sickroom. The chapter shows however that, in looking at the spectacle of the world, Alice James becomes herself the unwitting spectacle of pain incarnate. She is thus subjected to the disabling effects of sympathy, which she associates with the figure and the work of her brother, William James, a physician by training and a key figure of the emerging science of psychology. The chapter further illuminates how Alice James uses her own spectacularization to critique the manipulative politics of invalidism in the Victorian era and to put forward a model of abandonment to pain that echoes Emerson’s philosophy of selfhood. It eventually argues that, in repurposing the spectacle of sympathy by casting herself in the role of grotesque monster, Alice James performs her identity as a body in pain and a suffering invalid, thus literally producing herself as other in the pages of her diary.

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Maimonides, Moses. "Why I Write... and How I Write." In The Many Faces of Philosophy, 50–57. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195134025.003.0006.

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Abstract Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon, 1135–1204) was born into an eminent Spanish rabbinical family. When Cordova was conquered by an Islamic sect, the family first fled to Morocco and then, in 1165, to Egypt. While remaining the head of the Jewish community in Cairo, Maimonides became a physician and eventually the personal physician of the Vizier of Saladin. Among his ten treatises of medicine, his Regimen of Health is extended discussion of preventive medicine. He wrote texts on logic but also published commentaries on the Talmud (Commentary on the Mishnah), on the 613 biblical commandments (The Book of Commandments), and a codiffication of Jewish law (the Mishneh Torah). Like his other treatises, his major philosophic work, The Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), was originally written in Arabic but soon translated into Hebrew and then Latin. Although he knew Aristotle only indirectly through his reading of Al-Farabi and Avicenna, Maimonides used Aristotelian philosophy to attack astrology and naive literal readings of biblical texts, many of which he interpreted as anthropomorphic expressions of a more profound, systematically developed metaphysical and theological system. The Guide treats a wide range of topics: the creation, the divine attributes, Providence and responsibility, the independent rationality of Jewish law. The work exhibits and articulates an elaborate theory of language, which licenses polysemous writing directed to different audiences with different levels of understanding.

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Newman, Ira. "Shakespeare and philosophy." In Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780415249126-m070-1.

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Known for their attention to literary logic in general, philosophers have not usually focused on the works of specific literary writers. Yet unanticipated benefits often come from grounding abstract theory in concrete examples, much like the analytical opportunities accruing to moral philosophy when attention is turned to applied issues, such as the morality of the death penalty or physician-assisted suicide. It is not surprising, then, to wonder whether Shakespeare’s works, along with the critical and scholarly studies focused on them, might offer a promising resource for clarifying and testing philosophical theories about literature. And from a reverse perspective, whether Shakespearean writings might benefit from philosophical analyses of their various formulations. This entry will suggest some mutually beneficial possibilities by sampling several philosophical problems that result from exploring this rich body of Shakespearean literature. Three topics, as expressed through three of the great tragedies, will be considered. Shakespearean plays frequently have more than one text that have come down from the seventeenth century. Does this suggest there should be more than one work as well? In §1 the logic of how text diversity might impact the numerical identity of the work is considered, with a focus on King Lear as a case in point. The well-known problem of Borges’s Pierre Menard is discussed, as a related paradigm. A major part of Shakespearean criticism zeros in on character analysis. Yet there are deep logical questions in determining what exactly a fictional character is. Are we referring to a human whose psychological structure is presumed to extend beyond the limits of the play, so that in analysing a fictional Lady Macbeth we may use analytical resources analogous to our analysis of any human? Or should Shakespearean characters be viewed as no more than roles in plays, designed to develop the formal and symbolic meanings of an artifact called a drama? Section 2 will consider this question, with a focus on Macbeth. Along the way general questions about fictional characters will be broached, including the applicability of possible world analysis to fictional worlds, and the indeterminability of truth values for many fictional states, such as the notorious number of children Lady Macbeth may have had. Themes are a central part of literary construction. They lend unity to a work by organizing the disparate elements under a motif (such as retribution) or a propositional generalization (such as sinners will receive their just deserts). To what extent can these themes become transferable to the world at large, beyond the limits of the artwork’s circumscribed world? And if they can be transferred, can we speak of either the truthfulness or cognitive utility of Shakespearean themes as related to the real world? Section 3 will consider this range of questions, with attention to Hamlet as the primary example.

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