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Author : Roger J. Bulger
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587290220
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (92 download)
Download or read book In Search of the Modern Hippocrates written by Roger J. Bulger and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Cantor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351905295
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Reinventing Hippocrates written by David Cantor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name of Hippocrates has been invoked as an inspiration of medicine since antiquity, and medical practitioners have turned to Hippocrates for ethical and social standards. While most modern commentators accept that medicine has sometimes fallen short of Hippocratic ideals, these ideals are usually portrayed as having a timeless appeal, departure from which is viewed as an aberration that only a return to Hippocratic values will correct. Recent historical work has begun to question such an image of Hippocrates and his medicine. Instead of examining Hippocratic ideals and values as an unchanging legacy passed to us from antiquity, historians have increasingly come to explore the many different ways in which Hippocrates and his medicine have been constructed and reconstructed over time. Thus scholars have tended to abandon attempts to extract a real Hippocrates from the mass of conflicting opinions about him. Rather, they tend to ask why he was portrayed in particular ways, by particular groups, at particular times. This volume explores the multiple uses, constructions, and meanings of Hippocrates and Hippocratic medicine since the Renaissance, and elucidates the cultural and social circumstances that shaped their development. Recent research has suggested that whilst the process of constructing and reconstructing Hippocrates began during antiquity, it was during the sixteenth century that the modern picture emerged. Many scholastic endeavours today, it is claimed, are attempts to answer Hippocratic questions first posed in the sixteenth century. This book provides an opportunity to begin to evaluate such claims, and to explore their relevance in areas beyond those of classical scholarship.
Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1579580408
Total Pages : 1354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (795 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of World Biography written by Frank Northen Magill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003-01-23 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 250 entries, each volume of theDictionary of World Biographycontains examines the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. Much more than a 'Who's Who', each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements, and conclude with a fully annotated bibliography. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. Any student in the field will want to have one of these as a handy reference companion.
Author : Frank N. Magill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135457409
Total Pages : 1354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book The Ancient World written by Frank N. Magill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 250 entries, each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains examines the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. Much more than a 'Who's Who', each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements, and conclude with a fully annotated bibliography. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. Any student in the field will want to have one of these as a handy reference companion.
Author : Jan Kirk Carney
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 1284251187
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (842 download)
Download or read book A History of Public Health: From Past to Present written by Jan Kirk Carney and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Public Health: From Past to Present uses a structured format to study public health from antiquity to the present time. After a brief introduction, this concise text illuminates defining moments in public health history through stories that illustrate people, principles, and challenges. These are followed by a discussion of history’s relevance to contemporary practice. Suggestions for additional study, discussion questions, and references complete each chapter. Key Features: • Emphasis on selected narratives - more detailed stories - to highlight defining moments in public health history and help readers to remember key historical events, their significance, and determine their relevance to today’s issues and practice. • Easily accessible references and primary sources are included for additional study and context. • Ample visuals and graphics highlight people, priorities, art, public opinion, and trends relevant to the time period,, and more.
Author : David N. Livingstone
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691236704
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Empire of Climate written by David N. Livingstone and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an older, much deeper fear about the power that climate exerts over us. The Empire of Climate traces the history of this idea and its pervasive influence over how we interpret world events and make sense of the human condition, from the rise and fall of ancient civilizations to the afflictions of the modern psyche. Taking readers from the time of Hippocrates to the unfolding crisis of global warming today, David Livingstone reveals how climate has been critically implicated in the politics of imperial control and race relations; been used to explain industrial development, market performance, and economic breakdown; and served as a bellwether for national character and cultural collapse. He examines how climate has been put forward as an explanation for warfare and civil conflict, and how it has been identified as a critical factor in bodily disorders and acute psychosis. A panoramic work of scholarship, The Empire of Climate maps the tangled histories of an idea that has haunted our collective imagination for centuries, shedding critical light on the notion that everything from the wealth of nations to the human mind itself is subject to climate’s imperial rule.
Author : Peter E. Pormann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108593607
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
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.
Author : Janet Downie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199924880
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book At the Limits of Art written by Janet Downie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hieroi Logoi (or "Sacred Tales") of Aelius Aristides presents a unique first-person narrative from the ancient world-one that seems at once public and private, artful and naive. A prominent rhetor among the educated elite of second-century Asia Minor, Aristides produced a substantial body of polished discourses, declamations, and hymns. Within his oeuvre, however, the unparalleled Logoi stand out, and while scholars have embraced it as a rich source for Imperial-era religion, politics, and elite culture, the style of the text has presented a persistent stumbling block to literary analysis. Setting this dream-memoir of illness and divine healing in the context of Aristides' professional concerns as an orator, this book investigates the text's rhetorical aims and literary aspirations. At the Limits of Art argues that the Hieroi Logoi is an experimental work. Incorporating numerous dream accounts and narratives of divine cure in a multi-layered and open text, Aristides works at the limits of rhetorical convention to fashion an authorial voice that is transparent to the divine. Reading the Logoi in the context of contemporary oratorical practices, and in tandem with Aristides' polemical orations and prose hymns, the book uncovers the professional agendas motivating this unusual self-portrait. Aristides' sober view of oratory as a sacred pursuit was in tension with a widespread contemporary preference for spectacular public performance. In the Hieroi Logoi, he claims a place in the world of the Second Sophistic on his own terms, offering a vision of his professional inspiration in a style that pushes the limits of literary convention.
Author : Joan Cadden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521483780
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (837 download)
Download or read book The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages written by Joan Cadden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-31 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in cultural assumptions about gender.
Author : Plinio Prioreschi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1888456027
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (884 download)
Download or read book A History of Medicine: Greek medicine written by Plinio Prioreschi and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Owsei Temkin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801851292
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians written by Owsei Temkin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In compromise, the Church accepted Hippocratic medicine with the proviso that the Christian physician shun all pagan or heretical interpretations of naturalism--he must not, for example, believenature to be divine, the soul a mere function of the brain, or himself the true savior of the sick.
Author : Andrew Ede
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442604468
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book A History of Science in Society written by Andrew Ede and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling book traces the history of science through its continually changing place in society and explores the links between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful.
Author : Martin Mahony
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987554
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination written by Martin Mahony and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As global temperatures rise under the forcing hand of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions, new questions are being asked of how societies make sense of their weather, of the cultural values, which are afforded to climate, and of how environmental futures are imagined, feared, predicted, and remade. Weather, Climate, and Geographical Imagination contributes to this conversation by bringing together a range of voices from history of science, historical geography, and environmental history, each speaking to a set of questions about the role of space and place in the production, circulation, reception, and application of knowledges about weather and climate. The volume develops the concept of “geographical imagination” to address the intersecting forces of scientific knowledge, cultural politics, bodily experience, and spatial imaginaries, which shape the history of knowledges about climate.
Author : Raimondo G. Russo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031424441
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Medical Ethics written by Raimondo G. Russo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hippocrates
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465528075
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book On Fractures written by Hippocrates and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth L. Vaux
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556350988
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)
Download or read book An Abrahamic Theology for Science written by Kenneth L. Vaux and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth Vaux advocates an Abrahamic theology as a dynamic and ethical axis for science and technology and argues for its continuing salience for a vital and humane science. He demonstrates a historical correlation between an Abrahamic theological tradition (monotheism and venturism) and the rise of science. Vaux illustrates these developments in the work of six scientists: Avicenna, Boyle, Schweitzer, and Teilhard, as well as contemporaries Amartya Sen and Leon Kass. In the course of his discussion, Vaux engages the contemporary dialogue between religion and science.
Author : V. Jankovic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023011346X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Confronting the Climate written by V. Jankovic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the social origins of the Western preoccupation with health and environmental hazards. It looks at the rise of the dichotomy between the vulnerable 'in' and the threatening 'out' by examining the pathologies associated with weather, domestic space, ventilation, clothing, and travel in Britain at the turn of the 19th century.
