"The fascinating story of how Hippocrates and the Oath (which is
unlikely to have been written by the great Coan doctor himself)
became Christianized is the theme of this wise and humane book...
Historians, theologians, and doctors alike will benefit from this
clear, learned, and courteous exposition of an enthralling theme."
-- Vivian Nutton, Times Literary Supplement.
"A feast of citations from a staggering variety of sources...
The reader can only salute [Temkin] as one of the greatest humanist
physicians of our time." -- New England Journal of Medicine.
In Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians, Temkin shows
how the perennial appeal of Hippocratic practice helped establish
the relationship between scientific medicine and monotheistic
religion. After the first century, Hippocratic medicine competed
with powerful beliefs in religious healers from Asclepius to Jesus.
Yet the ascendance of Christianity, Temkin explains, did not
diminish the stature of Hippocratic science. Hippocrates, after
all, saw nature as a divine and orderly power that caused growth
and supplied "health." Hippocratic doctors could easily exchange
the cult of Asclepius for the worship of Christ. But they could not
sacrifice their belief in nature as the basis of health, disease,
and therapy without renouncing their science. In compromise, the
Church accepted Hippocratic medicine with the proviso that the
Christian physician shun all pagan or heretical interpretations of
naturalism -- he must not, for example, believenature to be divine,
the soul a mere function of the brain, or himself the true savior
of the sick.
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