Hippocrates Classics: on Ancient Medicine and the Oath
Author: Hippocrates
Publisher:
Published: 2019-10-17
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9781700438638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHippocrates argues against principles coming from natural philosophy.
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Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake
Author: T. A. Cavanaugh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0190673672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book articulates the Hippocratic Oath as establishing the medical profession by a promise to uphold an internal medical ethic that particularly prohibits doctors from killing. In its most basic and least controvertible form, this ethic mandates that physicians help and not harm the sick.
Hippocrates, Father of Medicine
Author: Herbert S. Goldberg
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2017-01-12
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 1787208451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1963, this book by University of Missouri Microbiology Professor Herbert S. Goldberg provides the reader with a picture of the life and times of Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine.” Hippocrates was born on the island of Cos in 460 B.C., and his works remained for centuries the foundation of medical and biographical knowledge. In addition, it was Hippocrates daring approach to the problems of sickness and disease that drove the opening wedge into the wall of fear that surrounded human ills. Hippocrates scrupulous attention to professional ethics is honored even to this day by the medical oath that bears his name—The Hippocratic Oath. Goldberg accurately describes the professions and trades during Hippocrates time, as well as the early education of youth in ancient Greece. Medicines were not based on science, but on driving evil spirits from the body. Hippocrates scientific approach to the study and treatment of disease has deservedly earned for him the title of “Father of Medicine.”
The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of Medicine
Author: Steven H. Miles
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-06-02
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0199759839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis engaging book examines what the Hippocratic Oath meant to Greek physicians 2400 years ago and reflects on its relevance to medical ethics today. Drawing on the writings of ancient physicians, Greek playwrights, and modern scholars, each chapter explores one of its passages and concludes with a modern case discussion. The Oath proposes principles governing the relationship between the physician and society and patients. It rules out the use of poison and a hazardous abortive technique. It defines integrity and discretion in physicians' speech. The ancient Greek medical works written during the same period as the Oath reveal that Greek physicians understood that they had a duty to avoid medical errors and learn from bad outcomes. These works showed how and why to tell patients about their diseases and dire prognoses in order to develop a partnership for healing and to build the credibility of the profession. Miles uses these writings to illuminate the meaning of the Oath in its day and in so doing shows how and why it remains a valuable guide to the ethical practice of medicine. This is a book for anyone who loves medicine and is concerned about the ethics and history of this profession.
Hippocratic Writings
Author: Hipócrates
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHippocratic Writings
Author: Hippocrates
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2005-05-26
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0141914866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb fractures, and the section called The Nature of Man describes the physiological theories of the time. The book ends with a discussion of embryology and a brief anatomical description of the heart.
Hippocrates, Volume X
Author: Hippocrates
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-10-22
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 0674996836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2013-01
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9781314052572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
On Airs, Waters and Places
Author: Hippocrates
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published:
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 1465528024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedicine and Markets in the Graeco-Roman World and Beyond
Author: Rebecca Flemming
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Published: 2020-01-01
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 191058990X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor almost half a century, Vivian Nutton has been a leading figure in the study of ancient (and less ancient) medicine. The field itself has been revolutionised over that time. In this volume distinguished colleagues and former students develop, in his honour, key themes of his ground-breaking scholarship. Spanning from the Bronze Age to the Digital Age, involving the cult of Artemis and the corpuscular theories of Asclepiades of Bithynia, the medicinal uses of beavers and the cost of health-care and wet-nursing, case-histories, remedy exchange and the medical repercussions of political assassination, this book has at its centre the pluralism and diversity of the ancient medical marketplace. The lively interplay between choice and competition, unity and division, communication and debate, so notable in Vivian Nutton's foundational vision of the world of classical medicine, is richly examined across these pages.
