Hippocrates now : : the 'father of medicine' in the internet age / / Helen King.
"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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| Superior document: | Bloomsbury studies in classical reception |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London England : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2019. London : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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?