Abracadabra. Il potere curativo delle parole tra mito, tradizioni e neuroscienze

• Autor principal: Muntoni, Cristina (auth)
• Otros Autores: Priori, Alberto (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: italiano
• Publicado: Milano Milano University Press 2022
• Materias: Sociology & anthropology; word; writing; reading; language; cognition
• Acceso en línea: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Sacred texts, myths and traditions worldwide attribute a healing power to words. Abracadabra, the magic word par excellence, is mentioned in the physician's book of Emperor Caracalla as a healing tool, and Gorgias in the 5th century BC compare drugs to words. What is the vision of science? What...