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Darrera modificació: 2013-04-10
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Totelin, Laurence M. V., Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greece, Leiden, Brill (Studies in Ancient Medicine, 34), 2009, xviii + 366 pp.
- Resum
- Hippocratic Recipes' is the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological and a sociocultural point of view. Drawing on studies in the fields of classics, social history of medicine, and anthropology, this book offers new insights into the production and use of pharmacological knowledge in the classical world. In particular, it assesses the deep interactions between oral and written traditions in the transmission of this knowledge. Recipes are addressed as texts, but the existence of ‘missing links' in the written tradition are acknowledged.
Contents:
* Introduction
* 1. Oral Transmission of Medical Knowledge and Written Recipes
* 2. The History of the Written Catalogues of Recipes
* 3. Hippocratic Recipes Between Home Remedies and 'Haute Médecine'
* 4. Imports, Geographical Determinism and Influences: the Use of Exotic and Luxury Ingredients in the Hippocratic Catalogues of Recipes
* 5. Fertility and Sex: the Symbolism Attached to Some Ingredients of the Hippocratic Gynaecological Recipes
* 6. Reading, Studying and Using the Hippocratic Catalogues of Recipes
* 7. The Afterlife of Hippocratic Recipes
* Conclusion: The Fluidity of Pharmacological Knowledge
- Matèries
- Medicina - Farmacologia
- Notes
- Fitxa de l'editor: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=18&pid=30233
Recensions:
* Magali de Haro Sanchez, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2009.10.42. URL: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-10-42.html
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