The Cambridge companion to Hippocrates / edited by Peter E. Pormann.
Pormann, Peter E., editor.
2018
R126.H8 C36 2018 (Mapit)
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Title The Cambridge companion to Hippocrates / edited by Peter E. Pormann.
ISBN 9781107068209 (hardcover)
1107068207 (hardcover)
9781107695849 (paperback)
1107695848 (paperback)
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Language English
Description xix, 441 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number R126.H8 C36 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 610.938
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 'Hippocratic Question' to problems such as aetiology, physiology and nosology. Emphasis is given to the afterlife of Hippocrates from Late Antiquity to the Modern period. Hippocrates had as much relevance in the fifth-century BC Greek world as in the medieval Islamic world, and he remains with us today in both medical and non-medical contexts"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Pormann, Peter E., editor.
Series The Cambridge companion to Hippocrates
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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 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. Pormann
Western medicine since the Renaissance / David Cantor.

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