This collection of essays explores the multiple uses, constructions and meanings of Hippocrates and Hippocratic medicine since the Renaissance, and elucidate the cultural and social circumstances that encouraged the creation of such varied proposals.

List of Figures

vii

Acknowledgements

viii

Notes on Contributros

ix

Introduction: The Uses and Meanings of Hippocrates

1

(20)

David Cantor

PART I Renaissance Constructions of Hippocratism

The Power of Paternity: The Father of Medicine Meets the Prince of Physicians

21

(16)

Helen King

Hippocrates and the Construction of `Progress' in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Medicine

37

(22)

Thomas Rutten

The Chemical Hippocrates: Paracelsian and Hippocratic Theory in Petrus Severinus' Medical Philosophy

59

(32)

Jole Shackelford

PART II The Transformations of Hippocratism in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-century Britain

The Transformation of Hippocrates in Seventeenth-century Britain

91

(25)

Andrew Cunningham

Hippocrates and the Politics of Medical Knowledge in Early Modern England

116

(20)

Robert L. Martensen

Hippocrates, Bacon, and Medical Meteorology at the Royal Society, 1700-1750

136

(21)

Andrea Rusnock

PART III Hippocratism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century France and North America

Hippocrates and the Montpellier Vitalists in the French Medical Enlightenment

157

(21)

Elizabeth A. Williams

The Rhetoric of Hippocrates at the Paris School

178

(22)

Ann F. La Berge

Making History in American Medical Culture: The Antebellum Competition for Hippocrates

200

(39)

John Harley Warner

PART IV Twentieth-century Hippocratic Revivals

Hippocrates American Style: Representing Professional Morality in Early Twentieth-century America

239

(18)

Susan E. Lederer

Hippocrates, Holism and Humanism in Interwar France

257

(23)

George Weisz

The Name and the Word: Neo-Hippocratism and Language in Interwar Britain

280

(22)

David Cantor

A Model for the New Physician: Hippocrates in Interwar Germany

302

(23)

Carsten Timmermann

Index

325

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