Hippocrates in Context

Hippocrates in Context
Author: P.J. van der Eijk
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004377271

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This collection of papers studies the Hippocratic writings in their relationship to the intellectual, social, cultural and literary context in which they were written, as well as the impact and reception of Hippocratic thought in later antiquity and the early modern period.


Hippocrates in Context
Language: en
Pages: 540
Authors: P.J. van der Eijk
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-17 - Publisher: BRILL

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This collection of papers studies the Hippocratic writings in their relationship to the intellectual, social, cultural and literary context in which they were w
The 'Hippocratic' Corpus
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: Elizabeth M. Craik
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-27 - Publisher: Routledge

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The Hippocratic Corpus comprises some sixty medical works of varying length, style and content. Collectively, this is the largest surviving body of early Greek
Reinventing Hippocrates
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: David Cantor
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Routledge

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This collection of essays explores the multiple uses, constructions and meanings of Hippocrates and Hippocratic medicine since the Renaissance, and elucidate th
Hippocrates On Ancient Medicine
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: Mark Schiefsky
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-17 - Publisher: BRILL

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The Hippocratic treatise On Ancient Medicine, a key text in the history of early Greek thought, mounts a highly coherent attack on the attempt to base medical p
Epidemics in Context
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Peter E. Pormann
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen's Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. But they also illustrate the rich exeget