L'héritage d'Asklépios. Soigner par le geste en Grèce archaique et classique. Camille Semenzato researchers

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L'héritage d'Asklépios. Soigner par le geste en Grèce archaique et classique. Camille Semenzato researchersIn 2020, the Covid 19 pandemic revealed the ambivalent power of medical gestures, perceived sometimes as life saving, sometimes as intrusive, even violent. This paradox, far from being unprecedented, invites us to return to the sources of Western medicine: how did the Greeks of the archaic and classical periods practice and represent these gestures? To answer these questions, Hlne Castelli's study focuses on manual actions aimed at healing, whether