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Reinventing Hippocrates (Paperback)
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Reinventing Hippocrates (Paperback)
Series: The History of Medicine in Context
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The name of Hippocrates has been invoked as an inspiration of
medicine since antiquity, and medical practitioners have turned to
Hippocrates for ethical and social standards. While most modern
commentators accept that medicine has sometimes fallen short of
Hippocratic ideals, these ideals are usually portrayed as having a
timeless appeal, departure from which is viewed as an aberration
that only a return to Hippocratic values will correct. Recent
historical work has begun to question such an image of Hippocrates
and his medicine. Instead of examining Hippocratic ideals and
values as an unchanging legacy passed to us from antiquity,
historians have increasingly come to explore the many different
ways in which Hippocrates and his medicine have been constructed
and reconstructed over time. Thus scholars have tended to abandon
attempts to extract a real Hippocrates from the mass of conflicting
opinions about him. Rather, they tend to ask why he was portrayed
in particular ways, by particular groups, at particular times. This
volume explores the multiple uses, constructions, and meanings of
Hippocrates and Hippocratic medicine since the Renaissance, and
elucidates the cultural and social circumstances that shaped their
development. Recent research has suggested that whilst the process
of constructing and reconstructing Hippocrates began during
antiquity, it was during the sixteenth century that the modern
picture emerged. Many scholastic endeavours today, it is claimed,
are attempts to answer Hippocratic questions first posed in the
sixteenth century. This book provides an opportunity to begin to
evaluate such claims, and to explore their relevance in areas
beyond those of classical scholarship.
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