Hippocrates' woman : reading the female body in ancient Greece /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: King, Helen, 1957-
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
• Θέματα: Gynecology > Greece > History.; Medicine, Greek and Roman.; Gynecology > Greek influences.; Women > Greece > History.; Human body > Social aspects > Greece > History.; Gyn�ecologie > Gr�ece > Histoire.; M�edecine grecque et romaine.; Gyn�ecologie > Influence grecque.; Femmes > Gr�ece > Histoire.; Corps humain > Aspect social.; MEDICAL > Reproductive Medicine & Technology.; HEALTH & FITNESS > Women's Health.; Gynecology.; Human body > Social aspects.; Women.; Women > history.; Women's Health > history.; Gynecology > history.; History, Ancient.; Human Body.; Greece.; Electronic books.; History.

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Cover
• HIPPOCRATES' WOMAN
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• NOTE ON TEXTS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• INTRODUCTION
• 1 CONSTRUCTING THE BODY
• Like a virgin
• The complete woman
• 2 DECEITFUL BODIES, SPEAKING BODIES
• 3 THE DAUGHTER OF LEONIDAS
• The daughter of Leonidas as a pink raven
• Permitted questions in the Hippocratic research programme
• The daughter of Leonidas as a black raven
• 4 BLOOD AND THE GODDESSES
• The strangled goddess
• Artemis releaser
• Chaste herb, virgin goddess
• The menstrual sacrifice
• 5 ASKLEPIOS AND WOMEN'S HEALING
• 6 WHAT DOES MEDICINE MEAN?
• Translating Hippocratic pain
• Aelius Aristides: a patient in pain
• 7 READING THE PAST THROUGH THE PRESENT
• What counts as contraception?
• What do women know?
• What do women want?
• When is a purge not an abortion?
• Testing folk remedies
• The efficacy of the placebo
• Beyond drugs
• 8 GENDER AND THE HEALING ROLE
• 9 IMAGINARY MIDWIVES
• 10 GREEN SICKNESS
• 11 ONCE UPON A TEXT
• Labels and origins: a name without a disease?
• Definitions: the textual tradition
• Hippocratic hysteria: the womb and its destinations
• Plato and Aretaeus: the wild womb?
• Stifling and suffocation: the development of the textual tradition
• Galen and his influence: winners and losers in the textual tradition
• Further contributions to the tradition: the Greek East
• The Latin West
• The Arab world
• The meeting of three worlds
• Tradition or truth?
• CONCLUSION
• NOTES
• INTRODUCTION
• 1 CONSTRUCTING THE BODY: THE INSIDE STORY
• 2 DECEITFUL BODIES, SPEAKING BODIES
• 3 THE DAUGHTER OF LEONIDAS: READING CASE HISTORIES
• 4 BLOOD AND THE GODDESSES
• 5 ASKLEPIOS AND WOMEN'S HEALING
• 6 WHAT DOES MEDICINE MEAN? THE PAIN OF BEING HUMAN
• 7 READING THE PAST THROUGH THE PRESENT: DRUGS AND CONTRACEPTION IN HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE
• 8 GENDER AND THE HEALING ROLE
• 9 IMAGINARY MIDWIVES
• 10 GREEN SICKNESS: HIPPOCRATES, GALEN AND THE ORIGINS OF THE 'DISEASE OF VIRGINS'
• 11 ONCE UPON A TEXT: HYSTERIA FROM HIPPOCRATES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX.