Reinventing Hippocrates (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cantor, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351905299
• Artikelnr.: 47954517

Autorenporträt

David Cantor

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: the uses and meanings of Hippocrates, David Cantor;
Renaissance Constructions of Hippocratism: The power of paternity: the
father of medicine meets the prince of physicians, Helen King; Hippocrates
and the construction of 'progress' in 16th and 17th-century medicine,
Thomas Rÿtten; The chemical Hippocrates: Paracelsian and Hippocratic
theory in Petrus Severinus' medical philosophy, Jole Shackelford; The
Transformations of Hippocratism in 17th- and 18th-century Britain: The
transformation of Hippocrates in 17th-century Britain, Andrew Cunningham;
Hippocrates and the politics of medical knowledge in early modern England,
Robert L. Martensen; Hippocrates, Bacon and medical meteorology at the
Royal Society, 1700-1750, Andrea Rusnock; Hippocratism in 18th- and
19th-century France and North America: Hippocrates and the Montpellier
Vitalists in the French Medical Enlightenment, Elizabeth A. Williams; The
rhetoric of Hippocrates at the Paris School, Ann F. La Berge; Making
history in American medical culture: the Antebellum Competition for
Hippocrates, John Harley Warner; 20th-century Hippocratic Revivals:
Hippocrates American style: representing professional morality in early
20th-century America, Susan E. Lederer; Hippocrates, holism and humanism in
interwar France, George Weisz; The name and the word: neo-Hippocratism and
language in inter-war Britain, David Cantor; A model for the new physician:
Hippocrates in interwar Germany, Carsten Timmermann; Index.