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Hippocrates' Woman

Author : Helen King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134772211
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Hippocrates' Woman written by Helen King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hippocrates' Woman demonstrates the role of Hippocratic ideas about the female body in the subsequent history of western gynaecology. It examines these ideas not only in the social and cultural context in which they were first produced, but also the ways in which writers up to the Victorian period have appealed to the material in support of their own theories. Among the conflicting tange of images of women given in the Hippocratic corpus existed one tradition of the female body which says it is radically unlike the male body, behaving in different ways and requiring a different set of therapies. This book sets this model within the context of Greek mythology, especially the myth of Pandora and her difference from men, to explore the image of the body as something to be read. Hippocrates' Woman presents an arresting study of the origins of gynaecology, an exploration of how the interior workings of the female body were understood and the influence of Hippocrates' theories on the gynaecology of subsequent ages.

Hippocrates' Woman

Author : Helen King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134772203
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Hippocrates' Woman written by Helen King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hippocrates' Woman demonstrates the role of Hippocratic ideas about the female body in the subsequent history of western gynaecology. It examines these ideas not only in the social and cultural context in which they were first produced, but also the ways in which writers up to the Victorian period have appealed to the material in support of their own theories. Among the conflicting tange of images of women given in the Hippocratic corpus existed one tradition of the female body which says it is radically unlike the male body, behaving in different ways and requiring a different set of therapies. This book sets this model within the context of Greek mythology, especially the myth of Pandora and her difference from men, to explore the image of the body as something to be read. Hippocrates' Woman presents an arresting study of the origins of gynaecology, an exploration of how the interior workings of the female body were understood and the influence of Hippocrates' theories on the gynaecology of subsequent ages.

Unwell Women

Author : Elinor Cleghorn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593182979
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Unwell Women written by Elinor Cleghorn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health—from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases—brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative. Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As Elinor learned to live with her unpredictable disease she turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis. In Unwell Women, Elinor Cleghorn traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to perilous effect. The result is an authoritative and groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between women and medical practice, from the "wandering womb" of Ancient Greece to the rise of witch trials across Europe, and from the dawn of hysteria as a catchall for difficult-to-diagnose disorders to the first forays into autoimmunity and the shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation, menopause, and conditions like endometriosis. Packed with character studies and case histories of women who have suffered, challenged, and rewritten medical orthodoxy—and the men who controlled their fate—this is a revolutionary examination of the relationship between women, illness, and medicine. With these case histories, Elinor pays homage to the women who suffered so strides could be made, and shows how being unwell has become normalized in society and culture, where women have long been distrusted as reliable narrators of their own bodies and pain. But the time for real change is long overdue: answers reside in the body, in the testimonies of unwell women—and their lives depend on medicine learning to listen.

Hippocrates, Volume X

Author : Hippocrates
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674996836
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Hippocrates, Volume X written by Hippocrates and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the tenth volume in the Loeb Classical Library's ongoing edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Here, Paul Potter presents the Greek text with facing English translation of five treatises, four concerning human reproduction (Generation, Nature of the Child) and reproductive disorders (Nature of Women, Barrenness), and one (Diseases 4) that expounds a general theory of physiology and pathology.

Hippocrates

Author : Hippocrates
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674995314
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Hippocrates written by Hippocrates and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hippocrates Now

Author : Helen King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350005908
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Hippocrates Now written by Helen King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Knowledge Unlatched programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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?

Hippocratic Recipes

Author : Laurence M. V. Totelin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004171541
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Hippocratic Recipes written by Laurence M. V. Totelin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on philological studies, social history and anthropology, this book offers the first extended study of the recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. It examines the links between oral and written traditions in the transmission of ancient pharmacological knowledge.

Hippocrates: Diseases of women I ; Diseases of women II

Author : Hippocrates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Hippocrates: Diseases of women I ; Diseases of women II written by Hippocrates and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hippocrates, said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BCE, learned medicine and philosophy; travelled widely as a medical doctor and teacher; was consulted by King Perdiccas of Macedon and Artaxerxes of Persia; and died perhaps at Larissa. Apparently he rejected superstition in favour of inductive reasoning and the study of real medicine as subject to natural laws, in general and in individual people as patients for treatment by medicines and surgery. Of the roughly 70 works in the Hippocratic Collection," many are not by Hippocrates; even the famous oath may not be his. But he was undeniably the "Father of Medicine."

Medical Firsts

Author : Robert E. Adler
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470313897
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Medical Firsts written by Robert E. Adler and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of medical discoveries-from the ancient Greeks to the present "Always help, or at least do no harm." Following this simple yet revolutionary idea, Hippocrates laid the foundation for modern medicine over two millennia ago. From the Hippocratic Oath to the human genome, from Pasteur's germ theory to the worldwide eradication of smallpox, Medical Firsts brings to life 2,500 years of medical advances and discoveries. Organized chronologically, the book describes each milestone in a vivid capsule history, making it a fascinating and wonderfully readable resource for anyone interested in medicine's past progress and future promise. Robert E. Adler, PhD (Santa Rosa, CA) has worked as a psychologist and science journalist. He writes about a wide variety of scientific and medical topics for New Scientist, Nature, and other publications and is the author of Science Firsts (0-471-40174-9).

The Invention of Medicine

Author : Robin Lane Fox
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0465093450
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Medicine written by Robin Lane Fox and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine. Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth century BCE, a Greek doctor put forward his clinical observations of individual men, women, and children in a collection of case histories known as the Epidemics. Among his working principles was the famous maxim "Do no harm." In The Invention of Medicine, acclaimed historian Robin Lane Fox puts these remarkable works in a wider context and upends our understanding of medical history by establishing that they were written much earlier than previously thought. Lane Fox endorses the ancient Greeks' view that their texts' author, not named, was none other than the father of medicine, the great Hippocrates himself. Lane Fox's argument changes our sense of the development of scientific and rational thinking in Western culture, and he explores the consequences for Greek artists, dramatists and the first writers of history. Hippocrates emerges as a key figure in the crucial change from an archaic to a classical world. Elegantly written and remarkably learned, The Invention of Medicine is a groundbreaking reassessment of many aspects of Greek culture and city life.

Reproduction

Author : Nick Hopwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108626084
Total Pages : 1387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Reproduction written by Nick Hopwood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 1387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From contraception to cloning and pregnancy to populations, reproduction presents urgent challenges today. This field-defining history synthesizes a vast amount of scholarship to take the long view. Spanning from antiquity to the present day, the book focuses on the Mediterranean, western Europe, North America and their empires. It combines history of science, technology and medicine with social, cultural and demographic accounts. Ranging from the most intimate experiences to planetary policy, it tells new stories and revises received ideas. An international team of scholars asks how modern 'reproduction' - an abstract process of perpetuating living organisms - replaced the old 'generation' - the active making of humans and beasts, plants and even minerals. Striking illustrations invite readers to explore artefacts, from an ancient Egyptian fertility figurine to the announcement of the first test-tube baby. Authoritative and accessible, Reproduction offers students and non-specialists an essential starting point and sets fresh agendas for research.

The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates

Author : Peter E. Pormann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108593607
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates written by Peter E. Pormann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hippocrates is a towering figure in Greek medicine. Dubbed the 'father of medicine', he has inspired generations of physicians over millennia in both the East and West. Despite this, little is known about him, and scholars have long debated his relationship to the works attributed to him in the so-called 'Hippocratic Corpus', although it is undisputed that many of the works within it represent milestones in the development of Western medicine. In this Companion, an international team of authors introduces major themes in Hippocratic studies, ranging from textual criticism and the 'Hippocratic question' to problems such as aetiology, physiology and nosology. Emphasis is given to the afterlife of Hippocrates from Late Antiquity to the modern period. Hippocrates had as much relevance in the fifth-century BC Greek world as in the medieval Islamic world, and he remains with us today in both medical and non-medical contexts.

On the Sacred Disease

Author : Hippocrates
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465528040
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book On the Sacred Disease written by Hippocrates and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen

Author : Hippocrates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen written by Hippocrates and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Holism in Ancient Medicine and Its Reception

Author : Chiara Thumiger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004443142
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Holism in Ancient Medicine and Its Reception written by Chiara Thumiger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims at exploring the ancient roots of ‘holistic’ approaches in the specific field of medicine and the life sciences, without, however, overlooking the larger theoretical implications of these discussions. Therefore, the project plans to broaden the perspective to include larger cultural discussions and, in a comparative spirit, reach out to some examples from non Graeco-Roman medical cultures. As such, it constitutes a fundamental contribution to history of medicine, philosophy of medicine, cultural studies, and ancient studies more broadly. The wide-ranging selection of chapters offers a comprehensive view of an exciting new field: the interrogation of ancient sources in the light of modern concepts in philosophy of medicine, as justification of the claim for their enduring relevance as object of study and, at the same time, as means to a more adequate contextualisation of modern debates within a long historical process. Contributors are: Hynek Bartoš, Sean Coughlin, Elizabeth Craik, Brooke Holmes, Helen King, Giouli Korobili, David Leith, Vivian Nutton, Julius Rocca, William Michael Short, P. N. Singer, Konstantinos Stefou, Chiara Thumiger, Laurence Totelin, Claire Trenery, John Wee, Francis Zimmermann.

Hippocratic Oratory

Author : James R. Cross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317048784
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Hippocratic Oratory written by James R. Cross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Ancient Medicine, On the Art, On Breaths, On the Nature of Human Beings and On the Sacred Disease are among the most well-known and sophisticated works of the Hippocratic Collection. The authors of these treatises were seeking to find means to express their arguments that built on authoritative models of their predecessors. By examining the range of expressive resources used in their expository prose, James Cross demonstrates how oral tradition and written techniques, such as sound patterning, sign-posting and antithetical formulae, were deployed to help the writers develop a case. The book demonstrates that there were various layers of meaning and manners of communicating ideas which can be found in Hippocratic expository prose, and offers fresh insights into the oral debating culture and experiments in persuasion which characterise the ancient Greek world of the late fifth-century BCE.

Hippocrates' Handmaidens

Author : Esther M. Nitzberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780918393814
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book Hippocrates' Handmaidens written by Esther M. Nitzberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1991 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting new book tells what it is like to be a woman married to a physician. Until now, there has been little information available about doctors' wives, especially from their perspective. Because they have played their roles well—as self-effacing, staunch supporters of their husbands and their husbands' work—they have kept quiet. In Hippocrates' Handmaidens, these women speak candidly about the benefits and the disadvantages of being married to physicians. They share their universal fears and frustrations—of being abandoned for another woman and often, of having few skills or little work experience if they are; of fitting into the very rigid and highly critical medical community; of their feelings of jealously and/or competition with their husbands; and of their lack of power and control in their marriages. They also address the sanctity of medicine and doctors in our society and the traditional values and paternalistic attitudes within the medical community that directly influence their lives.