The Corporeality of the Self: The Example of Bitter Nefeš as an Ethnomedical Syndrome
Updated by:
Shlomo Brand
Research notes:
SB/not checked/17/02/2022
Reference type:
Journal Article
year:
2021
Full title:
The Corporeality of the Self: The Example of Bitter Nefeš as an Ethnomedical Syndrome
Journal / Book Title || Series Title:
Dead Sea Discoveries
Volume:
28
Issue / Series Volume:
3
Abbreviated Series Name:
DSD
Place of Publication:
Leiden
Publisher:
Brill
Pages:
396–422
Work type:
Essay/Monograph
Abstract:
A contribution to Western genealogies of the self, the corporeality of the Hebrew soul (nefeš) is explored through the lens of ancient medical discourses. Using the example of bitterness as an ethnomedical syndrome, this essay shows how the Hebrew idiom “bitter nefeš” acts as an embodied channel of flux in illness narratives about bodily suffering and healing.
URL:
https://brill.com/view/journals/dsd/28/3/article-p396_6.xml
Label:
07/03/2022
Record number:
109 410