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Hippocrates

Jacques Jouanna ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise

(Medicine & culture / series editor Sander L. Gilman)

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

  • : pbk

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Hippocrate

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Translation of: Hippocrate. Paris : Fayard, 1992

Includes selections from Hippocrates' works

Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-493) and indexes

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巻冊次

ISBN 9780801859076

内容説明

In view of Hippocrates' exceptional importance in the history of medicine, it seems surprising that our knowledge of his life and career should be so incomplete. Jacques Jouanna contends that a great deal can be concluded about the life and works of Hippocrates. He reveals a man who was a great ancient physician, but also a philosopher of unrecognized ability and consequence who influenced both Plato and Aristotle; a historian who was the equal of Herodotus and Thucydides as a writer and superior to them in his powers of observation and analysis; and a master of tragic narrative who bears comparison with Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the great playwrights of the classical period.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780801868184

内容説明

Hippocrates, considered for more than two thousand years the father of medicine, came over time to be credited with a life of mythic proportions and an enormous body of work. Hippocrates' pronouncements on health, disease, and prognosis went unchallenged in the Western world until scientific advances in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made many of his ideas obsolete. And yet medical students in the United States and Europe still recite the Hippocratic oath upon completion of their studies. In view of Hippocrates' exceptional importance in the history of medicine, it may seem surprising that our knowledge of this fifth century b.c. Greek physician should be so incomplete. Nonetheless, Jacques Jouanna contends that a great deal can be concluded about the life and works of Hippocrates. Published to both critical and popular acclaim in France, Hippocrates reveals a man who was not only the greatest of the ancient physicians but also a philosopher of unrecognized ability and consequence who influenced both Plato and Aristotle; a historian who was the equal of Herodotus and Thucydides as a writer and superior to them in his powers of observation and analysis; and a master of tragical narrative who bears comparison with Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Now that Hippocrates has at last emerged from the hagiographic mists of Byzantium and medieval Europe, the justice of his reputation as one of the greatest figures of antiquity can be more fully appreciated.

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