Pain and the Body in Corpus Hippocraticum: A Distributional Semantic Analysis
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<a href="https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/dco/article/view/81212/77994" target="_blank" >https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/dco/article/view/81212/77994</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11588/dco.2021.7.81212" target="_blank" >10.11588/dco.2021.7.81212</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Pain and the Body in Corpus Hippocraticum: A Distributional Semantic Analysis
Original language description
The authors of the medical treatises collected in Corpus Hippocraticum often mention pain, its qualities and origin. At the same time, however, they do not provide any explicit definition or theory of pain, of its nature and of its relation to other important aspects of Hippocratic medicine. Moreover, they employ at least four word families which are commonly suggested to denote pain in ancient Greek. This encourages modern researchers to ask how do these four pain words semantically differ and to what extent are they based on a shared notion of pain. In this article, we attempt to answer these questions by analyzing the corpus by means of several computational text analysis methods, especially by employing a distributional semantic modeling approach. Our results reveal a close association between some of these pain words, bodily parts and pathological states. The results are further compared with findings obtained by means of traditional close reading of the sources.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Digital Classics Online
ISSN
2364-7957
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Volume of the periodical
7
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
54-71
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