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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic
2020.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury OA ebooks.
Bloomsbury studies in classical reception. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44527172*spi |
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?
