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Gerasimova I.A., Mil'kov V.V. Medical Terms in the Books of Ancient Rus

Abstract: The subject of the research is the Old Russian book sources on human nature, his health and illness. The object of the research is anthropological, historical, cultural, ethical and psychological aspects of the concepts of body and soul, life and death, illness and healing. Along with Orthodox religious literature, the authors also analyze Apocrypha and historical primary sources that allow to reconstruct cultural and historical peculiarities of attitude to illness and healing in different monastic communities. Special attention is paid to ethical and psychological aspects of healing. The authors of the article base their research on the interdisciplinary methodology that combines detailed textual analysis and anthropological, ethical and psychological approaches. The main conclusions of the research are the following: attitude to life and death, illness and means of healing was rather contradictory and determined by the idea about body and soul. Rigid ascetic position with the emphasis on physical depravity and denial of natural means of healing and medical practice was completed with the harmonic attitude to body and soul presented in Christianized Platonism. Differentiation between healing and medicine (rational means of treatment) allows to make a conclusion about cultivation of the theurgic therapy with its psychological attributes in Ancient Rus. Nature-aligned (professional) medicine is presented in a number of Apocrypha with astroprognostic components.  


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humoral theory, medicine, spiritual healing, illness, body, psyche, monasteries, books, Ancient Rus, ethics of healing


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