Hippocrates: Man, Medic, Myth: Great Lives of the Ancient World
Autor Elizabeth Craiken Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 noi 2026
Who was the so-called father of medicine, namesake of the Hippocratic oath? Elizabeth Craik takes a look at the evidence for the historical Hippocrates, who lived in the fifth century BCE, and explores the complex web of texts called the Hippocratic Corpus. Through a focus on locality and language, Craik shows how several different voices may all be regarded as Hippocratic. Hippocrates brings a vital new orientation to important questions of origins and authorship and provides a novel interpretation of a key figure in the history of medicine.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781836392750
ISBN-10: 1836392753
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 22 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Great Lives of the Ancient World
ISBN-10: 1836392753
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 22 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Great Lives of the Ancient World
Notă biografică
Elizabeth Craik is an honorary professor of classics at the University of St. Andrews. She has published widely on literature, social history, and the history of medicine in ancient Greece, including The ‘Hippocratic’ Corpus.
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"An original and insightful examination of the historical Hippocrates and the subsequent crafting of his sacralization. A beautifully written work of supple scholarship, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the shifting dynamics and enduring impact of Hippocrates on the formation of the Western medical tradition.
“Drawing on her extensive knowledge of the Hippocratic Corpus, Elizabeth Craik reconstructs the different voices of Hippocrates, offering an authoritative, sophisticated, and methodologically original survey of the evidence surrounding the life, thought, and legacy of this puzzling figure.”
“In this learned, lucid, and highly accessible volume, Elizabeth Craik takes a new and original approach to the collection of ancient medical writings known as the Hippocratic corpus. Basing her analysis on commonalities of language and of content, she identifies three main strands among the many authors whose work the corpus preserves and locates them in the cultural and intellectual background of the regions in which they developed. The result is an unconventional and stimulating biography that takes questions of authorship seriously, situating ancient medicine not only in its original ancient Greek contexts, but also in its wider reception history.”
“Drawing on her extensive knowledge of the Hippocratic Corpus, Elizabeth Craik reconstructs the different voices of Hippocrates, offering an authoritative, sophisticated, and methodologically original survey of the evidence surrounding the life, thought, and legacy of this puzzling figure.”
“In this learned, lucid, and highly accessible volume, Elizabeth Craik takes a new and original approach to the collection of ancient medical writings known as the Hippocratic corpus. Basing her analysis on commonalities of language and of content, she identifies three main strands among the many authors whose work the corpus preserves and locates them in the cultural and intellectual background of the regions in which they developed. The result is an unconventional and stimulating biography that takes questions of authorship seriously, situating ancient medicine not only in its original ancient Greek contexts, but also in its wider reception history.”