Chapter 3 The professional audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics
To summarise our findings, the Hippocratic Epidemics case reports is an example of a text whose intended audiences, despite the ambiguities and historical uncertainties about the texts’ composition and transmission, were very firmly delimited as professional and medical. Such closure defines this...
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| description | To summarise our findings, the Hippocratic Epidemics case reports is an example of a text whose intended audiences, despite the ambiguities and historical
uncertainties about the texts’ composition and transmission, were very firmly
delimited as professional and medical. Such closure defines this phase of ancient
medicine as particularly territorial and “technical”, on the one hand – no literary
pretence, nor broader intellectual appeal of the kind shown by Galen is on the
horizon of these writers, nor any explicit attempt to win over lay audiences, at
least in the Epidemics.77 Also, it tells us something about the epistemology and
didactics at work in the Hippocratic handling of patients, which we can summarise
as follows: non-theoretical, observation-based and data-centred; self-standing,
i.e. not relying on a system of knowledge or a “syllabus” (compare Galen’s
frequent recommendation on which of his books one should read first, which are
for beginners, what should follow, etc.), but needing to “support itself” by insuring
the memorisation of the repertoires of observations, procedures, risks and
mistakes; lack of a synthesis of the empirical data, such as a form of diagnosis,
or of the “epistemological extension” that might turn the observed case into an
“experiment”.78 The Hippocratic use of individual evidence – the patient case –
remained in this early stage a communication of pure data. Individual memory,
in conclusion, the reception of an individual intellect – a future student, a training
doctor – characterises the audience of these texts, motivates and even determines,
concretely, their very existence. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-329302025-03-04T09:57:16Z Chapter 3 The professional audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics Thumiger, Chiara patient cases hippocratic communication patient cases hippocratic communication Case report Epidemic Epistemology Galen History of medicine Medicine Mnemonic Physician thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing To summarise our findings, the Hippocratic Epidemics case reports is an example of a text whose intended audiences, despite the ambiguities and historical uncertainties about the texts’ composition and transmission, were very firmly delimited as professional and medical. Such closure defines this phase of ancient medicine as particularly territorial and “technical”, on the one hand – no literary pretence, nor broader intellectual appeal of the kind shown by Galen is on the horizon of these writers, nor any explicit attempt to win over lay audiences, at least in the Epidemics.77 Also, it tells us something about the epistemology and didactics at work in the Hippocratic handling of patients, which we can summarise as follows: non-theoretical, observation-based and data-centred; self-standing, i.e. not relying on a system of knowledge or a “syllabus” (compare Galen’s frequent recommendation on which of his books one should read first, which are for beginners, what should follow, etc.), but needing to “support itself” by insuring the memorisation of the repertoires of observations, procedures, risks and mistakes; lack of a synthesis of the empirical data, such as a form of diagnosis, or of the “epistemological extension” that might turn the observed case into an “experiment”.78 The Hippocratic use of individual evidence – the patient case – remained in this early stage a communication of pure data. Individual memory, in conclusion, the reception of an individual intellect – a future student, a training doctor – characterises the audience of these texts, motivates and even determines, concretely, their very existence. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-10-18 14:19:37 2020-04-01T13:03:34Z 2018-02-26 23:55 2019-10-18 14:19:37 2020-04-01T13:03:34Z 2018-01-01 23:55:55 2019-10-18 14:19:37 2020-04-01T13:03:34Z 2018 chapter 644572 OCN: 1030819462 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30635 9781351205276 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32930 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30635/1/644572.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30635/1/644572.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30635/1/644572.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30635/1/644572.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30635/1/644572.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30635/1/644572.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Greek Medical Literature and its Readers Wellcome Trust 9781351205276 Wellcome Routledge 19 open access |
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