Reinventing Hippocrates
This collection of essays explores the multiple uses, constructions and meanings of Hippocrates and Hippocratic medicine since the Renaissance, and elucidate the cultural and social circumstances that encouraged the creation of such varied proposals.
History
x, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780754605287, 0754605280
46732640
Introduction: the uses and meanings of Hippocrates
The power of paternity: the father of medicine meets the prince of physicians
Hippocrates and the construction of 'progress' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century medicine
The chemical Hippocrates: Paracelsian and Hippocratic theory in Petrus Severinus' medical philosophy
The transformation of Hippocrates in seventeenth-century Britain
Hippocrates and the politics of medical knowledge in early modern England
Hippocrates, Bacon, and medical meteorology at the Royal Society, 1700-1750
Hippocrates and the Montpellier Vitalists in the French medical enlightenment
The rhetoric of Hippocrates at the Paris School
Making history in American medical culture: the antebellum competition for Hippocrates
Hippocrates American style: representing professional morality in early twentieth-century America
Hippocrates, holism and humanism in interwar France
The name and the word: neo-Hippocratism and language in interwar Britain
A model for the new physician: Hippocrates in interwar Germany