Hippocrates

by Jacques Jouanna

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801868181
• ISBN13: 9780801868184
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher