The Cambridge companion to Hippocrates / edited by Peter E. Pormann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pormann, Peter E., editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Cambridge Companions to Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hippocrates. Works.

Hippocrates.

Hippocrates--Influence.

Medicine, Greek and Roman--History.

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

History.

Medical literature--Greece--Criticism, Textual.

Medical literature.

Criticism, Textual.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 441 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

PDF

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 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.

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 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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ISBN:

9781107705784

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