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The Cambridge companion to Hippocrates /

"Hippocrates is a towering figure in Greek medicine. Dubbed the 'father of medicine', he has inspired generations of physicians over millennia in both the East and West. Despite this, little is known about him, and scholars have long debated his relationship to the works attributed to...

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Group Author: Pormann, Peter E
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2018.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Cambridge companions. Philosophy
Subjects:
Hippocrates. > Works
Hippocrates > Influence
Medicine, Greek and Roman > History
Medical literature > Greece > Criticism, Textual
Summary: "Hippocrates is a towering figure in Greek medicine. Dubbed the 'father of medicine', he has inspired generations of physicians over millennia in both the East and West. Despite this, little is known about him, and scholars have long debated his relationship to the works attributed to him in the so-called 'Hippocratic Corpus', although it is undisputed that many of the works within it represent milestones in the development of Western medicine. In this Cambridge Companion, an international team of authors introduces major themes in Hippocratic studies, ranging from textual criticism and the
Carrier Form: xix, 441 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-436) and index.
ISBN: 9781107695849 (paperback) :
1107695848 (paperback)
9781107068209 (hardcover)
1107068207 (hardcover)
Index Number: R126
CLC: R-095.45
Call Number: R-095.45/C178
Contents: Introduction / Peter E. Pormann -- The 'Hippocratic question' and the nature of the Hippocratic corpus / Elizabeth Craik -- Textual history / Jacques Jouanna -- Body / Brooke Holmes -- Aetiology / Jim Hankinson -- Epistemologies / Lorenzo Perilli -- Ethics and deontology / Karl-Heinz Leven -- Nosology / Amneris Roselli -- Therapeutics / Laurence M.V. Totelin -- Surgery / Mathias Witt -- Female patients / Lesley Dean-Jones -- Doctors and patients / Chiara Thumiger -- Galen's Hippocrates / Veronique Boudon-Millot -- Late antiquity / Daniella Manetti -- Arabo-Islamic tradition / Peter E. Porman

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