Hippocrates now : the "father of medicine" in the internet age

Hippocrates now the "father of medicine" in the internet age

"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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: King, Helen, 1957- author (author)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London England : Bloomsbury Academic 2019.
Edición:First edition
Colección:Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
Materias:
Hippocrates.
Hippocrates > Influence.
Hippocrates > In mass media.
Physicians > Greece > Biography.
Medicine, Greek and Roman > In mass media.
Medicine > Historiography.
Greece > History > To 146 B.C. > Biography > Sources.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429713206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What we know about Hippocrates
  • What we thought we knew
  • Sabotaging the story : what Hippocrates didn't write
  • Needing a bit of information : Hippocrates in the news
  • Hippocrates in quotes
  • Let food be thy medicine
  • The holistic Hippocrates : "Treating the patient, not just the disease"
  • Conclusion: Strange remedies?

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