The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

"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 Cambridge 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"-- Provided by publisher Cover 1 Half-title page 3 Series page 4 Title page 5 Copyright page 6 Contents 7 Notes on Contributors 9 Preface 15 Notes on Citations 18 1 Introduction 23 2 The ‘Hippocratic Question’ and the Nature of the Hippocratic Corpus 47 3 Textual History 60 4 Body 85 5 Aetiology 111 6 Epistemologies 141 7 Ethics and Deontology 174 8 Nosology 202 9 Therapeutics 222 10 Surgery 239 11 Female Patients 268 12 Doctors and Patients 285 13 Galen’s Hippocrates 314 14 Late Antiquity 337 15 Arabo-Islamic Tradition 362 16 Western Medicine since the Renaissance 384 Appendix Compiled by Melissa Markauskas 406 References 412 Index 459