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| #1965721 in Books | 1998-11-12 | 1998-10-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.78 x6.14l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 344 pages||9 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| well researched but a chore to read|By TammyJo Eckhart|Helen King presents us with a vast array of evidence about women and medicine and the use of the body in the ancient Greek world. However, she moves beyond the title of her piece and that is when the book loses focus and becomes difficult to follow. This is not a book for the layperson regardless of this, it requires a||"King's book is an important contribution to the history of gynecology and offers a fresh look at traditional questions about Hippocrates and the Hippocratic corpus....."|-"Religious Studies , January 2002 |"This is a brilliant work of synthesis.exceptionally
Hippocrates' Woman demonstrates the role of Hippocratic ideas about the female body in the subsequent history of western gynaecology. It examines these ideas not only in the social and cultural context in which they were first produced, but also the ways in which writers up to the Victorian period have appealed to the material in support of their own theories. Among the conflicting tange of images of women given in the Hippocratic corpus existed one tradition...
You easily download any file type for your device.Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece | Helen King. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.