Hippocrates Now
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Author
Publication
2019 - Bloomsbury Academic, London, No place, unknown, or undetermined
Language
English
Word Count
68,000 words, Guess
Page Count
272 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28353357M
- ISBN-139781350005891
- OCLC Control Number1085199757
- OCLC Control Number1108784025
- Library of Congress Control Number2019017436
Classifications
- LCCR126.H8 K56 2020
Description
This book challenges widespread assumptions about Hippocrates (and, in the process, about ancient Greek medicine) and will also explore the creation of modern myths about the ancient world. Through the lens of reception studies Helen King considers what ?Hippocrates? means today. He features powerfully in our assumptions about ancient medicine, and our beliefs about what medicine ? and the physician himself ? should be. In ethics, as well as in actual treatments recommended by both orthodox and alternative medicine, ?Hippocrates? still features as a model to be emulated. Why do we continue to use him in this way, and how are new myths constructed around his name? And what can this tell us about popular engagements with the classical world today?
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