Reinventing Hippocrates. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Cantor.
• Other Names: Cantor, David
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (352 pages)
• Subjects: 610; Medicine, Greek and Roman; Medicine, Ancient; History, 16th Century; History, 17th Century; Histoire ancienne; Medicine, Ancient; Medicine, Greek and Roman; Geneeskunde; Romeinse oudheid; Receptie; Medizin; Rezeption; Médecine grecque et romaine; Griekse oudheid; History; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351905299; 1351905295
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.