Reinventing Hippocrates

by Cantor, David

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Title Statements

Full title :Reinventing Hippocrates / edited by David Cantor.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2002.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ashgate
Place of Publication:Aldershot, Eng
Language:eng
Publication Date:2002.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 341 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0754605280, 9780754605287
oclc:ocm46732640
LC Classification:R126.H8
Dewey Decimal:610

Introduction: the uses and meanings of Hippocrates -- The power of paternity: the father of medicine meets the prince of physicians -- Hippocrates and the construction of 'progress' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century medicine -- The chemical Hippocrates: Paracelsian and Hippocratic theory in Petrus Severinus' medical philosophy -- The transformation of Hippocrates in seventeenth-century Britain -- Hippocrates and the politics of medical knowledge in early modern England -- Hippocrates, Bacon, and medical meteorology at the Royal Society, 1700-1750 -- Hippocrates and the Montpellier Vitalists in the French medical enlightenment -- The rhetoric of Hippocrates at the Paris School -- Making history in American medical culture: the antebellum competition for Hippocrates -- Hippocrates American style: representing professional morality in early twentieth-century America -- Hippocrates, holism and humanism in interwar France -- The name and the word: neo-Hippocratism and language in interwar Britain -- A model for the new physician: Hippocrates in interwar Germany.

Subjects

44.01 history of medicine geneeskunde Geschichte 1600-2000 Griekse oudheid Hippocrate Hippocrates Histoire ancienne HISTORY -- Ancient History, 16th Century History, 17th Century Médecine -- Histoire -- 16e siècle Médecine -- Histoire -- 17e siècle Médecine ancienne Médecine grecque et romaine Medicine -- History -- 17th century Medicine, Ancient Medicine, Greek and Roman Medizin Receptie Rezeption