Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- And Fourth-Century Greece (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004171541)

Vendor: Laurence Totelin
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$240.00
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Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- And Fourth-Century Greece

$240.00

Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- And Fourth-Century Greece

$240.00
Format: Hardcover
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Hippocratic Recipes is the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological and a sociocultural point of view. Drawing on studies in the fields of classics, social history of medicine, and anthropology, this book offers new insights into the production and use of pharmacological knowledge in the classical world. In particular, it assesses the deep interactions between oral and written traditions in the transmission of this knowledge. Recipes are addressed as texts, but the existence of 'missing links' in the written tradition are acknowledged.

Author: Laurence Totelin
ISBN-10: 9004171541
ISBN-13: 9789004171541
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/23/2008
Pages: 366
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.66lbs
Size: 9.45h x 6.30w x 0.88d
By Laurence Totelin
By Laurence Totelin
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Laurence M.V. Totelin , Ph.D. (2006) in History of Medicine, University College London, is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She has published articles on pharmacology in the Greek and Roman worlds.

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