Antik Dönem Tıp Anlayışı Üzerine Bir İnceleme: Sağlık Tanrısı Askleipos
Book chapter > Chapter Research Book · 2018
Authors: Şadiye Emet GÜREL, Aslı Ceren ALAÇAM
Contemporary Debates, Chapter Research Book, Ijopec Publication, Other, International, 2018, pp 103-119, England, Londra
Summary
<p>All activities regarding human health and healthcare communication form a linear and developmental line through the history of civilization. Medicine is a process of change and development. In other words, medicine is a discipline that has continued to evolve since ancient times and today maintains its evolutionary quality. This means that the perception and understanding of human health also evolve over time. The period that encapsulates the medical applications of the archaic humans to the modern understanding of medicine, and also includes the progression of medicine in parallel with the modern developments, is expressed as ‘the history of medicine’. Medicine is a historical fact as well as a discipline, an art and a profession. Medicine is a part of the history of civilization. In fact, it is possible to read the history of medicine based on the history of civilization and vice versa. The objective of the study is to examine the understanding of ancient medicine, which constitutes the base of modern medicine, using the example of Asclepius, the god of medicine. This can be achieved by clarifying the concurrent aspects between the discipline of medicine and healthcare communication and the discipline of history and mythology. Thus, the study aims to enlighten the history of medicine and the origins of healthcare communication. The data were obtained using a literature review. In this context, the study classified and organized the information, which was obtained with the review of resources related to the history of medicine and mythology. The study discusses the god of medicine, ‘Asclepius’, his wife, ‘Epione’, their daughters, ‘Hygieia’, ‘Iaso’, ‘Panacea’, their sons, ‘Podaleiros’ and ‘Machaon’, as well as the ‘Asclepions’, which were ancient healing temples, in detail. The details of the findings of the study are reflected in the results section of the study.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>History of medicine, Mythology, Asclepius</p>