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oapen-20.500.12657-237732024-03-22T19:23:07Z Hippocrates Now King, Helen Classics thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine This book challenges widespread assumptions about Hippocrates (and, in the process, about ancient Greek medicine) and will also explore the creation of modern myths about the ancient world. Through the lens of reception studies Helen King considers what ‘Hippocrates’ means today. He features powerfully in our assumptions about ancient medicine, and our beliefs about what medicine – and the physician himself – should be. In ethics, as well as in actual treatments recommended by both orthodox and alternative medicine, ‘Hippocrates’ still features as a model to be emulated. Why do we continue to use him in this way, and how are new myths constructed around his name? And what can this tell us about popular engagements with the classical world today? 2019-11-15 23:55 2020-03-14 03:00:36 2020-04-01T09:28:45Z 2020-04-01T09:28:45Z 2020 book 1006370 OCN: 1135856299 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23773 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781350005914.pdf 9781350005907.epub Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781350005921 102503 10.5040/9781350005921 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) London 102503 KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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This book challenges widespread assumptions about Hippocrates (and, in the process, about ancient Greek medicine) and will also explore the creation of modern myths about the ancient world. Through the lens of reception studies Helen King considers what ‘Hippocrates’ means today. He features powerfully in our assumptions about ancient medicine, and our beliefs about what medicine – and the physician himself – should be. In ethics, as well as in actual treatments recommended by both orthodox and alternative medicine, ‘Hippocrates’ still features as a model to be emulated. Why do we continue to use him in this way, and how are new myths constructed around his name? And what can this tell us about popular engagements with the classical world today?
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