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Darrera modificació: 2020-08-01
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King, Helen, Hippocrates Now: The ‘Father of Medicine' in the Internet Age, Londres, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, publ. electrònica.
- Resum
- 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?
Contents:
* Introduction. Receiving Hippocrates -- Looking like Hippocrates -- Hairs of Hippocrates
* Chapter 1: What we know about Hippocrates
* Chapter 2: What we thought we knew. Hippocrates as God and Galen as his prophet? -- Finding a Hippocratic treatise -- Making a Corpus -- Authors and titles: what is a treatise? -- Creating the myths: biographies and pseudepigrapha -- Being 'nice': the personality of Hippocrates -- Moving beyond the myths
* Chapter 3: Sabotaging the story: what Hippocrates didn't write. Writing new stories -- Wikipedia as a moving target -- Being the daddy -- Two decades in the slammer? -- Spreading the myths -- The Complicated Body -- From coercion to freedom
* Chapter 4: Needing a bit of information: Hippocrates in the news. -- Taking and breaking: the Hippocratic Oath -- Imhotep and the power of Egyptian medicine -- Poop proof: Hippocrates' parasites -- Julius please her: Hippocratic hysteria -- A long history? Meanwhile in Babylon -- The Hippocrates detox diet
* Chapter 5: Hippocrates in quotes. Flitting like a bee: becoming a quote --First do no harm -- Walking is the best medicine
* Chapter 6: Let food be thy medicine. Let food be thy medicine -- Back to the source? -- Which foods? Liver, garlic and watercress -- Death begins in the gut: constipation and Hippocrates
* Chapter 7: The holistic Hippocrates: 'Treating the patient, not just the disease'. The self-healing body -- Hippocrates in contemporary holistic medicine -- Invoking Hippocrates through history -- Hippocrates branded
* Conclusion: Strange remedies?
* Bibliography
- Matèries
- Hipòcrates
Història de la medicina
Recepció
- Notes
- Recensions:
Jessica Wright, a BMCR 2020.07.51  .
- URL
- https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/hippocra ...
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