The Hippocrates Code

Author : JC McKeown,Joshua Smith
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781624664663

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The Hippocrates Code by JC McKeown,Joshua Smith Pdf

In this book lies a key for decoding modern medical terminology, a living language that, despite some quirks, is best approached as an ordered system. Rather than presenting a mere list of word elements to be absorbed through rote memorization, The Hippocrates Code offers a thorough, linguistically-centered explanation of the rules of the terminological game, both for the language of medicine and for scientific vocabulary in general. Its careful exposition of Latin and Greek linguistic principles—along with a healthy dose of innovative exercises—empowers students to successfully employ the word elements that are the building blocks of modern medical terminology. Along the way, fascinating discussions of the practice of medicine in the ancient world provide an integral aid to the understanding of medical vocabulary. Code-breakers drawn to language, history, and medicine will be as stimulated as they are enlightened. The Hippocrates Code features: Twenty-eight chapters covering the principles behind the formation of medical vocabulary derived from Latin and Greek, complete with a rich harvest of the most useful prefixes, suffixes, and bases Detailed anatomical diagrams paired with an etymological tour of the human body Selected readings from ancient medical writers, with commentaries that compare and contrast medical practices in antiquity with those of the present day An abundant array of diverse and often ingenious exercises that require critical thinking about the application of word elements. For additional vocabulary practice, exercises, pronunciation aids, and much more The Hippocrates Code companion website: www.hippocratescode.com

Author : J. C. McKeown,Joshua M. Smith
Publisher : Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Classical languages
ISBN : 1624664652

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The Hippocrates Code by J. C. McKeown,Joshua M. Smith Pdf

Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781545748367

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The Life and Times of Hippocrates by Jim Whiting Pdf

For many centuries in ancient history, people believed illnesses were handed down by the gods. In the fifth century BCE, a Greek physician named Hippocrates changed that attitude. He began looking for natural causes of illnesses. Many of his treatment methods seem primitive. For example, he performed brain surgery by drilling into a patient s skull with a sharp piece of wood. There were no anesthetics. It was a very painful procedure. >In other ways his methods have held up surprisingly well. Like modern doctors, Hippocrates emphasized the value of a good diet and plenty of exercise. He also used maggots, leeches, and bees to treat his patients. All three of these creatures are still being used by doctors even in the United States. >Because of his efforts, today Hippocrates is known as the Father of Medicine.

Author : T. A. Cavanaugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190673673

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Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake by T. A. Cavanaugh Pdf

T. A. Cavanaugh's Hippocrates' Oath and Asclepius' Snake: The Birth of the Medical Profession articulates the Oath as establishing the medical profession's unique internal medical ethic - in its most basic and least controvertible form, this ethic mandates that physicians help and not harm the sick. Relying on Greek myth, drama, and medical experience (e.g., homeopathy), the book shows how this medical ethic arose from reflection on the most vexing medical-ethical problem -- injury caused by a physician -- and argues that deliberate iatrogenic harm, especially the harm of a doctor choosing to kill (physician assisted suicide, euthanasia, abortion, and involvement in capital punishment), amounts to an abandonment of medicine as an exclusively therapeutic profession. The book argues that medicine as a profession necessarily involves stating before others what one stands for: the good one seeks and the bad one seeks to avoid on behalf of the sick, and rejects the view that medicine is purely a technique lacking its own unique internal ethic. It concludes noting that medical promising (as found in the White Coat Ceremony through which U. S. medical students matriculate) implicates medical autonomy which in turn merits respect, including honoring professional conscientious objections.

Author : Steven H. Miles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195188202

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The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of Medicine by Steven H. Miles Pdf

This short work examines what the Hippocratic Oath said to Greek physicians 2400 years ago and reflects on its relevance to medical ethics today. Drawing on the writings of ancient physicians, Greek playwrights, and modern scholars, each chapter explores one passage of the Oath and concludes with a modern case discussion. This book is for anyone who loves medicine and is concerned about the ethics and history of the profession.

Author : Robin Lane Fox
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241277065

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The Invention of Medicine by Robin Lane Fox Pdf

Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021 Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, Greeks even wrote of medicine as a newly discovered craft they had invented. Robin Lane Fox's remarkable book puts their invention of medicine in a wider context, from the epic poems of Homer to the first doctors known to have been active in the Greek world. He examines what we do and do not know about Hippocrates and his Oath and the many writings that survive under his name. He then focuses on seven core texts which give the case histories of named individuals, showing that books 1 and 3 belong far earlier than previously recognised. Their re-dating has important consequences for the medical awareness of the great Greek dramatists and the historians Herodotus and Thucydides. Robin Lane Fox pieces together the doctor's thinking from his terse observations and relates it in a new way to the history of Greek prose and ideas. This original and compelling book opens windows onto many other aspects of the classical world, from women's medicine to street-life, empire, art, sport, sex and even botany. It fills a dark decade in a new way and carries readers along an extraordinary journey form Homer's epics to the grateful heirs of the Greek case histories, first in the Islamic world and then in early modern Europe.

Author : Helen King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350005907

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Hippocrates Now by Helen King Pdf

This book is available as open access through the Knowledge Unlatched programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. We need to talk about Hippocrates. Current scholarship attributes none of the works of the 'Hippocratic corpus' to him, and the ancient biographical traditions of his life are not only late, but also written for their own promotional purposes. Yet Hippocrates features powerfully in our assumptions about ancient medicine, and our beliefs about what medicine – and the physician himself – should be. In both orthodox and alternative medicine, he continues to be a model to be emulated. This book will challenge widespread assumptions about Hippocrates (and, in the process, about the history of medicine in ancient Greece and beyond) and will also explore the creation of modern myths about the ancient world. Why do we continue to use Hippocrates, and how are new myths constructed around his name? How do news stories and the internet contribute to our picture of him? And what can this tell us about wider popular engagements with the classical world today, in memes, 'quotes' and online?

Author : Hippocrates
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : EAN:4064066465933

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On Epidemics by Hippocrates Pdf

"On Epidemics" by Hippocrates (translated by Francis Adams). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Mohammed Ali Al-Bar,Hassan Chamsi-Pasha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319184289

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Contemporary Bioethics by Mohammed Ali Al-Bar,Hassan Chamsi-Pasha Pdf

This book discusses the common principles of morality and ethics derived from divinely endowed intuitive reason through the creation of al-fitr' a (nature) and human intellect (al-‘aql). Biomedical topics are presented and ethical issues related to topics such as genetic testing, assisted reproduction and organ transplantation are discussed. Whereas these natural sources are God’s special gifts to human beings, God’s revelation as given to the prophets is the supernatural source of divine guidance through which human communities have been guided at all times through history. The second part of the book concentrates on the objectives of Islamic religious practice – the maqa' sid – which include: Preservation of Faith, Preservation of Life, Preservation of Mind (intellect and reason), Preservation of Progeny (al-nasl) and Preservation of Property. Lastly, the third part of the book discusses selected topical issues, including abortion, assisted reproduction devices, genetics, organ transplantation, brain death and end-of-life aspects. For each topic, the current medical evidence is followed by a detailed discussion of the ethical issues involved.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics,Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Committee on Envisioning the Data Science Discipline: The Undergraduate Perspective
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309475594

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Data Science for Undergraduates by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics,Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Committee on Envisioning the Data Science Discipline: The Undergraduate Perspective Pdf

Data science is emerging as a field that is revolutionizing science and industries alike. Work across nearly all domains is becoming more data driven, affecting both the jobs that are available and the skills that are required. As more data and ways of analyzing them become available, more aspects of the economy, society, and daily life will become dependent on data. It is imperative that educators, administrators, and students begin today to consider how to best prepare for and keep pace with this data-driven era of tomorrow. Undergraduate teaching, in particular, offers a critical link in offering more data science exposure to students and expanding the supply of data science talent. Data Science for Undergraduates: Opportunities and Options offers a vision for the emerging discipline of data science at the undergraduate level. This report outlines some considerations and approaches for academic institutions and others in the broader data science communities to help guide the ongoing transformation of this field.

Author : Anthem
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323317214

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PROP - Anatomy and Physiology Terminology Custom by Anthem Pdf

PROP - Anatomy and Physiology Terminology Custom

Author : Elizabeth M. Craik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317567899

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The ‘Hippocratic’ Corpus by Elizabeth M. Craik Pdf

The Hippocratic Corpus comprises some sixty medical works of varying length, style and content. Collectively, this is the largest surviving body of early Greek prose. As such, it is an invaluable resource for scholars and students not only of ancient medicine but also of Greek life in general. Hippocrates lived in the age of Socrates and most of the treatises seem to originate in the classical period. There is, however, no consensus on Hippocratic attribution. The ‘Hippocratic’ Corpus examines the works individually under the broad headings: content - each work is summarised for the reader comment - the substance and style of each work is discussed context is provided not just in relation to the corpus as a whole but also to the work’s wider relevance. Whereas the scholar or student approaching, say, Euripides or Herodotus has a wealth of books available to provide introduction and orientation, no such study has existed for the Hippocratic Corpus. As The ‘Hippocratic’ Corpus has a substantial introduction, and as each work is summarised for the reader, it facilitates use and exploration of an important body of evidence by all interested in Greek medicine and society. Elizabeth Craik is Honorary Professor at University of St Andrews and Visiting Professor at University of Newcastle, UK.

Author : Hippocrates
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780141914862

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Hippocratic Writings by Hippocrates Pdf

This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb fractures, and the section called The Nature of Man describes the physiological theories of the time. The book ends with a discussion of embryology and a brief anatomical description of the heart.

Author : Hippocrates
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465528049

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On the Sacred Disease by Hippocrates Pdf

Author : Hippocrates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Medicine
ISBN : NYPL:33433011418963

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The Genuine Works of Hippocrates by Hippocrates Pdf