Hippocrates Now

A welcome and sorely needed antidote to the confusion generated by the reception of Hippocrates and the Hippocratic corpus in popular culture ... Hippocrates Now comes as a gift to all of us who are on the front lines of history instruction in 2022, and it represents the best of what classical reception work has to offer contemporary conversations.

Vorwort
An exploration of the ways in which Hippocrates now forms a source of medical authority and a reference point for lay people, examining the contribution of the 'Father of Medicine' to both ethics and practice today.

Autorentext
Helen King is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at The Open University, UK. She has published widely on ancient medicine and its reception in the Renaissance and early modern world including, most recently, The One-Sex Body on Trial (2013).

Zusammenfassung
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?

Inhalt
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction Receiving Hippocrates Looking like Hippocrates Hairs of Hippocrates Chapter 1: What we know about Hippocrates Chapter 2: What we thought we knew Hippocrates as God and Galen as his prophet? Finding a Hippocratic treatise Making a Corpus Authors and titles: what is a treatise? Creating the myths: biographies and pseudepigrapha Being 'nice': the personality of Hippocrates Moving beyond the myths Chapter 3: Sabotaging the story: what Hippocrates didn't write Writing new stories Wikipedia as a moving target Being the daddy Two decades in the slammer? Spreading the myths The Complicated Body From coercion to freedom Chapter 4: Needing a bit of information: Hippocrates in the news Taking and breaking: the Hippocratic Oath Imhotep and the power of Egyptian medicine Poop proof: Hippocrates' parasites Julius please her: Hippocratic hysteria A long history? Meanwhile in Babylon The Hippocrates detox diet Chapter 5: Hippocrates in quotes Flitting like a bee: becoming a quote First do no harm Walking is the best medicine Chapter 6: Let food be thy medicine Let food be thy medicine Back to the source? Which foods? Liver, garlic and watercress Death begins in the gut: constipation and Hippocrates Chapter 7: The holistic Hippocrates: 'Treating the patient, not just the disease' The self-healing body Hippocrates in contemporary holistic medicine Invoking Hippocrates through history Hippocrates branded Conclusion: Strange remedies? Bibliography Notes Index

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