"The Symptom and the Subject is intellectually challenging, beautifully written, deeply thought out, and closely researched in primary and secondary materials. I found myself utterly engrossed by its arguments."—James I. Porter, University of California, Irvine"Brilliant and important, this book tackles nothing less than the discovery of the body as a cultural and conceptual category in Greek antiquity. The book ranges over Homer and archaic poetry, the Sophists, philosophy, tragedy, and—most unusually and originally—the medical writings of the Hippocratic corpus, to construct a compelling account of historical developments."—Leslie Kurke, University of California, Berkeley.