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Summary:

"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 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?"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• 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?

Author/Creator:

King, Helen, 1957- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English.

Main Work:

Hippocrates now: the "father of medicine" in the internet age [by King, H.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Hippocrates now [by King, H.] (London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 — ISBN 9781350005891; LCCN 2019017436)

Related Series:

Bloomsbury studies in classical reception

Subjects:

Hippocrates

Hippocrates — Influence

Hippocrates — In mass media

Physicians — Greece — Biography

Medicine, Greek and Roman — In mass media

Medicine — Historiography

Greece — History — To 146 B.C. — Biography — Sources

Biographical sources

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Mass media

Physicians

Greece

To 146 B.C.

Medicine, Greek and Roman

Medicine

Genres:

Collective biographies

Biographies

History

Sources

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 03, 2019).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

R126.H8 K56 2020eb

ISBNs:

9781350005907 (electronic book)
1350005908 (electronic book)
9781350005914 (electronic book)
1350005916
9781350005891 (electronic bk.)
1350005894 (electronic bk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019980524

OCLC Numbers:

1108784025