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    Chapter 3 The professional audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics

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    Patient cases in Hippocratic scientific communication

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    Author(s)
    Thumiger, Chiara
    Collection
    Wellcome
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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.
    Book
    Greek Medical Literature and its Readers
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30635
    Keywords
    patient cases; hippocratic; communication; patient cases; hippocratic; communication; Case report; Epidemic; Epistemology; Galen; History of medicine; Medicine; Mnemonic; Physician
    ISBN
    9781351205276
    OCN
    1030819462
    Publisher
    Taylor & Francis
    Publisher website
    https://taylorandfrancis.com/
    Publication date and place
    2018
    Grantor
    • Wellcome Trust
    Imprint
    Routledge
    Classification
    Medicine and Nursing
    Pages
    19
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    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Case report - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_report; Epidemic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic; Epistemology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology; Galen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen; Hippocrates - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates; History of medicine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_medicine; Medicine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine; Mnemonic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic; Physician - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician; 3-8-2020 - No DOI registered in CrossRef for ISBN 9781472487919
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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