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Hippocrates Now: The 'Father of Medicine' in the Internet Age (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350005891)
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xThis book is available as open access through the Knowledge Unlatched programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
We need to talk about Hippocrates. Current scholarship attributes none of the works of the 'Hippocratic corpus' to him, and the ancient biographical traditions of his life are not only late, but also written for their own promotional purposes. Yet Hippocrates features powerfully in our assumptions about ancient medicine, and our beliefs about what medicine - and the physician himself - should be. In both orthodox and alternative medicine, he continues to be a model to be emulated.
This book will challenge widespread assumptions about Hippocrates (and, in the process, about the history of medicine in ancient Greece and beyond) and will also explore the creation of modern myths about the ancient world. Why do we continue to use Hippocrates, and how are new myths constructed around his name? How do news stories and the internet contribute to our picture of him? And what can this tell us about wider popular engagements with the classical world today, in memes, 'quotes' and online?
Author: Helen King
ISBN-10: 1350005894
ISBN-13: 9781350005891
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2019
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d
We need to talk about Hippocrates. Current scholarship attributes none of the works of the 'Hippocratic corpus' to him, and the ancient biographical traditions of his life are not only late, but also written for their own promotional purposes. Yet Hippocrates features powerfully in our assumptions about ancient medicine, and our beliefs about what medicine - and the physician himself - should be. In both orthodox and alternative medicine, he continues to be a model to be emulated.
This book will challenge widespread assumptions about Hippocrates (and, in the process, about the history of medicine in ancient Greece and beyond) and will also explore the creation of modern myths about the ancient world. Why do we continue to use Hippocrates, and how are new myths constructed around his name? How do news stories and the internet contribute to our picture of him? And what can this tell us about wider popular engagements with the classical world today, in memes, 'quotes' and online?
Author: Helen King
ISBN-10: 1350005894
ISBN-13: 9781350005891
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2019
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d
By Helen King
xHelen King is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at The Open University, UK. She has published widely on ancient medicine and its reception in the Renaissance and early modern world including, most recently, The One-Sex Body on Trial (2013).
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