Emotional Contagion: The Aristotelian Compassio in Medieval Medicine and Philosophy

This book addresses a universal problem: the transmission of psycho-physiological reactions from one person to another, and illuminates the twofold enigma, that of the trajectory of the term compassio, and that of explaining the phenomenon it denoted.

Béatrice Delaurenti is Associate Professor in Medieval History at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS)