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Author King, Helen, 1957- author.

Title Hippocrates now : the "father of medicine" in the internet age / Helen King.

Publication Info. 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Local Note Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access
Subject Hippocrates.
Hippocrates -- Influence.
Hippocrates -- In mass media.
Hippocrates. (OCoLC)fst00030023
Physicians -- Greece -- Biography.
Medicine, Greek and Roman -- In mass media.
Medicine -- Historiography.
Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Biography -- Sources.
Biographical sources. (OCoLC)fst00832146
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484
Mass media. (OCoLC)fst01011219
Medicine -- Historiography. (OCoLC)fst01014964
Physicians. (OCoLC)fst01062841
Greece. (OCoLC)fst01208380
History of medicine.
Chronological Term To 146 B.C.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: King, Helen, 1957- Hippocrates now London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 9781350005891 (DLC) 2019017436
ISBN 9781350005907 electronic book
1350005908 electronic book
9781350005914 electronic book
9781350005891 (electronic book)
1350005894 (electronic book)
1350005916
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