This book is available as open access through the Knowledge
Unlatched programme and is available on
www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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?
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