Hippocrates Now
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2019
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781350005891; 9781350005914; 9781350005907
Subjects: History of medicine
Description: This book challenges widespread assumptions about Hippocrates (and, in the process, about ancient Greek medicine) and will also explore the creation of modern myths about the ancient world. Through the lens of reception studies Helen King considers what ?Hippocrates? means today. He features powerfully in our assumptions about ancient medicine, and our beliefs about what medicine ? and the physician himself ? should be. In ethics, as well as in actual treatments recommended by both orthodox and alternative medicine, ?Hippocrates? still features as a model to be emulated. Why do we continue to use him in this way, and how are new myths constructed around his name? And what can this tell us about popular engagements with the classical world today?
Notes: Knowledge Unlatched 102503 KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books

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