Hippocrates (Medicine and Culture) [Hardcover] Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
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Hippocrates, considered for more than two thousand years the father of medicine, came over time to be credited with a life of mythic proportions and an enormous body of work. Hippocrates' pronouncements on health, disease, and prognosis went unchallenged in the Western world until scientific advances in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made many of his ideas obsolete. And yet medical students in the United States and Europe still recite the Hippocratic oath upon completion of their studies. In view of Hippocrates' exceptional importance in the history of medicine, it may seem surprising that our knowledge of this fifth century b.c. Greek physician should be so incomplete.
Nonetheless, Jacques Jouanna contends that a great deal can be concluded about the life and works of Hippocrates. Published to both critical and popular acclaim in France, Hippocrates reveals a man who was not only the greatest of the ancient physicians but also a philosopher of unrecognized ability and consequence who influenced both Plato and Aristotle; a historian who was the equal of Herodotus and Thucydides as a writer and superior to them in his powers of observation and analysis; and a master of tragical narrative who bears comparison with Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Now that Hippocrates has at last emerged from the hagiographic mists of Byzantium and medieval Europe, the justice of his reputation as one of the greatest figures of antiquity can be more fully appreciated.
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- Series: Medicine and Culture
- Hardcover: 536 pages
- Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (December 14, 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0801859077
- ISBN-13: 978-0801859076
- Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.9 x 1.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,391,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
If someone wants to read a single book in English to discover the wonders of the Hippocratic Corpus, there can be no hesitation: it's Jouanna's "Hippocrates." It is magisterial but extremely readable: the entire book consists of engaging 1-3 page essays on subjects chosen for their importance but also for their fascination. That's not to say the book is incoherent; these mini-essays nicely build up into a treatment of the larger chapter subjects (e.g. "The Birth of the Human Sciences," "The Reaction Against Philosophy"). The only reader I could imagine disappointed in Jouanna's treatment is the one who would like the ancient medical ideas constantly related to modern ones. Jouanna is interested in giving the reader an understanding of how the Hippocratic physicians thought and worked (including those careful observations that can still be respected by modern doctors), but he will never answer a question like, "So is there any modern medical fact corresponding to the ancient notion that eight-months' babies faced more challenges to survival to seven-months' babies?"
One serious and one less serious complaint about the English edition. The paperback is the worst-manufactured scholarly book I can remember reading, and JHU Press should be ashamed. I got it out from the library and read it once, and it is in pieces, with at least two pages entirely detached. It's the cheapest glue-job you can imagine.
The translation falls a bit short; there are times when I feel glad I know French and Greek because the translator has not really found the way all the way over to the natural English equivalent. For example, we read "arithmology" instead of "numerology," and other Hellenisms/Gallicisms are frequent.
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