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Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth-century Greece

By Laurence M. V. Totelin

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2009
ISBN
9004171541, 9789004171541
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3126934 bytes)
Series
Studies in Ancient Medicine 34
Pages
366\385
Time added
2016-06-11 16:36:07
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Description

"Hippocratic Recipes" is the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological and a sociocultural point of view. Drawing on studies in the fields of classics, social history of medicine, and anthropology, this book offers new insights into the production and use of pharmacological knowledge in the classical world. In particular, it assesses the deep interactions between oral and written traditions in the transmission of this knowledge. Recipes are addressed as texts, but the existence of missing links in the written tradition are acknowledged."

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