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Aristophanes’ Wealth: Ancient Alternative Medicine and its Modern Survival

Author(s) -

N. Koutouvidis,

Esther Papamichael,

A Fotiadou

Publication year - 1996

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107689608901118

Subject(s) - politics , alternative medicine , function (biology) , rationalism , modern medicine , medicine , traditional medicine , philosophy , epistemology , political science , law , biology , pathology , evolutionary biology

The miraculous cure of the blind god Plutos (‘Wealth’) in Aristophanes’ play illuminates some of the reasons why people have sought help in alternative medicine over the ages. Apart from limitations of conventional medicine these factors can be social, political, religious, psychological, and scientific. Alternative medicine may function in a complementary way to the conventional. Nevertheless, an overestimation of its therapeutic potentials by the public can lead to the domination of irrationalism, all in the name of liberation from the shackles of a mechanistic rationalism.

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