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

• Auteur principal: Muntoni, Cristina (auth)
• Autres auteurs: Priori, Alberto (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: italien
• Publié: Milano Milano University Press 2022
• Sujets: Sociology & anthropology; word; writing; reading; language; cognition
• Accès en ligne: 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...