Hippocrates Now

The ‘Father of Medicine’ in the Internet Age

AvHelen King

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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 our assumptions about ancient medicine, and our beliefs about what medicine – and the physician himself – should be. In both orthodox and alternative medicine, he continues to be a model to be emulated.This open access book will challenge widespread assumptions about Hippocrates (and, in the process, about the history of medicine in ancient Greece and beyond) and will also explore the creation of modern myths about the ancient world. Why do we continue to use Hippocrates, and how are new myths constructed around his name? How do news stories and the internet contribute to our picture of him? And what can this tell us about wider popular engagements with the classical world today, in memes, ‘quotes’ and online?The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Knowledge Unlatched programme.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-11-14
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:562 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350005891

Utforska kategorier

Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Forntidens historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Helen King is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at The Open University, UK. She has published widely on ancient medicine and its reception in the Renaissance and early modern world including, most recently, The One-Sex Body on Trial (2013).

Recensioner i media

Helen King’s engaging examination of web-based appropriations of Hippocrates is especially salient reading during the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lock-downs.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Receiving HippocratesLooking like HippocratesHairs of HippocratesChapter 1: What we know about Hippocrates Chapter 2: What we thought we knew Hippocrates as God and Galen as his prophet? Finding a Hippocratic treatiseMaking a Corpus Authors and titles: what is a treatise? Creating the myths: biographies and pseudepigraphaBeing ‘nice’: the personality of HippocratesMoving beyond the mythsChapter 3: Sabotaging the story: what Hippocrates didn’t write Writing new storiesWikipedia as a moving targetBeing the daddyTwo decades in the slammer?Spreading the mythsThe Complicated BodyFrom coercion to freedomChapter 4: Needing a bit of information: Hippocrates in the news Taking and breaking: the Hippocratic OathImhotep and the power of Egyptian medicinePoop proof: Hippocrates’ parasitesJulius please her: Hippocratic hysteriaA long history? Meanwhile in Babylon The Hippocrates detox dietChapter 5: Hippocrates in quotes Flitting like a bee: becoming a quoteFirst do no harmWalking is the best medicineChapter 6: Let food be thy medicine Let food be thy medicineBack to the source?Which foods? Liver, garlic and watercress Death begins in the gut: constipation and HippocratesChapter 7: The holistic Hippocrates: ‘Treating the patient, not just the disease’ The self-healing bodyHippocrates in contemporary holistic medicineInvoking Hippocrates through historyHippocrates brandedConclusion: Strange remedies? Bibliography NotesIndex