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Author King, Helen, 1957- author.

Title Hippocrates now : the "father of medicine" in the internet age / Helen King
Published London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Bloomsbury studies in classical reception
Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
Contents What we know about Hippocrates -- What we thought we knew -- Sabotaging the story : what Hippocrates didn't write -- Needing a bit of information : Hippocrates in the news -- Hippocrates in quotes -- Let food be thy medicine -- The holistic Hippocrates : "Treating the patient, not just the disease" -- Conclusion: Strange remedies?
Summary "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?"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 03, 2019)
Subject Hippocrates.
Hippocrates -- Influence
Hippocrates -- In mass media
SUBJECT Hippocrates fast
Subject Physicians -- Greece -- Biography
Medicine, Greek and Roman -- In mass media
Medicine -- Historiography.
History of medicine
Biographical sources
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Mass media
Medicine -- Historiography
Physicians
SUBJECT Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Biography -- Sources
Subject Greece
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019980524
ISBN 9781350005907
1350005908
9781350005914
1350005916
9781350005891
1350005894