Reinventing Hippocrates
Rather than viewing Hippocratic ideals and values as an unchanging legacy, historians have increasingly explored the ways in which Hippocrates and his medicine have been constructed and reconstructed over time. This book examines the multiple uses, constructions, and meanings since the Renaissance.
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- Full title :Reinventing Hippocrates / edited by David Cantor.
Summary
Rather than viewing Hippocratic ideals and values as an unchanging legacy, historians have increasingly explored the ways in which Hippocrates and his medicine have been constructed and reconstructed over time. This book examines the multiple uses, constructions, and meanings since the Renaissance.
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- Publication Date:2001.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ashgate
- Place of Publication:Aldershot
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2001.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (330 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781351905305, 1351905309, 9780754605287, 0754605280
- oclc:on1076639216
- LC Classification:R147
- Dewey Decimal:610.9031
Table of Contents
Introduction: the uses and meanings of Hippocrates, David Cantor; Renaissance Constructions of Hippocratism: The power of paternity: the father of medicine meets the prince of physicians, Helen King; Hippocrates and the construction of? progress?T in 16th and 17th-century medicine, Thomas RAtten; The chemical Hippocrates: Paracelsian and Hippocratic theory in Petrus Severinus?T medical philosophy, Jole Shackelford; The Transformations of Hippocratism in 17th- and 18th-century Britain: The transformation of Hippocrates in 17th-century Britain, Andrew Cunningham; Hippocrates and the politics of medical knowledge in early modern England, Robert L. Martensen; Hippocrates, Bacon and medical meteorology at the Royal Society, 1700?"1750, Andrea Rusnock; Hippocratism in 18th- and 19th-century France and North America: Hippocrates and the Montpellier Vitalists in the French Medical Enlightenment, Elizabeth A. Williams; The rhetoric of Hippocrates at the Paris School, Ann F. La Berge; Making history in American medical culture: the Antebellum Competition for Hippocrates, John Harley Warner; 20th-century Hippocratic Revivals: Hippocrates American style: representing professional morality in …
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