Hippocrates (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jacques Jouanna
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Biography, medicine, and history of science
- Time of Work: Fifth and fourth centuries
- Setting: The Eastern Mediterranean
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Science and technology
- Subjects: Europe or Europeans, Doctors, Medicine, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people
- Locales: Mediterranean
Readers looking for a traditional biography in Hippocrates will be disappointed. Relatively little is known about the historical Hippocrates, and Jacques Jouanna, professor of Greek at the Sorbonne, is a judicious scholar, meticulous with his sources and seldom given to speculation. Readers who want to learn about physicians in classical antiquity, however, will find Hippocrates a rich fund of information closely analyzed and systematically arranged. In fact, the book concerns Hippocrates’ followers (the Hippocratic physician) and the miscellaneous medical treatises,...
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