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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
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
The Invention of Medicine
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: Robin Lane Fox
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-08 - Publisher: Basic Books

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A preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine. Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great
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