Reinventing Hippocrates

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Pub. Date: 2001-12-28
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
vii
Acknowledgements viii
Notes on Contributros ix
Introduction: The Uses and Meanings of Hippocrates
1(20)
David Cantor
PART I Renaissance Constructions of Hippocratism
The Power of Paternity: The Father of Medicine Meets the Prince of Physicians
21(16)
Helen King
Hippocrates and the Construction of `Progress' in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Medicine
37(22)
Thomas Rutten
The Chemical Hippocrates: Paracelsian and Hippocratic Theory in Petrus Severinus' Medical Philosophy
59(32)
Jole Shackelford
PART II The Transformations of Hippocratism in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-century Britain
The Transformation of Hippocrates in Seventeenth-century Britain
91(25)
Andrew Cunningham
Hippocrates and the Politics of Medical Knowledge in Early Modern England
116(20)
Robert L. Martensen
Hippocrates, Bacon, and Medical Meteorology at the Royal Society, 1700-1750
136(21)
Andrea Rusnock
PART III Hippocratism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century France and North America
Hippocrates and the Montpellier Vitalists in the French Medical Enlightenment
157(21)
Elizabeth A. Williams
The Rhetoric of Hippocrates at the Paris School
178(22)
Ann F. La Berge
Making History in American Medical Culture: The Antebellum Competition for Hippocrates
200(39)
John Harley Warner
PART IV Twentieth-century Hippocratic Revivals
Hippocrates American Style: Representing Professional Morality in Early Twentieth-century America
239(18)
Susan E. Lederer
Hippocrates, Holism and Humanism in Interwar France
257(23)
George Weisz
The Name and the Word: Neo-Hippocratism and Language in Interwar Britain
280(22)
David Cantor
A Model for the New Physician: Hippocrates in Interwar Germany
302(23)
Carsten Timmermann
Index 325

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