Hippocrates' woman : reading the female body in ancient Greece / / Helen King |
Autore | King Helen <1957, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
Disciplina | 618.1/00938 |
Soggetto topico |
Gynecology - Greece - History
Medicine, Greek and Roman Gynecology - Greek influences Women - Greece - History Human body - Social aspects - Greece - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-134-77221-1
1-280-33216-6 9786610332168 0-203-02599-7 0-203-15964-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on texts; Abbreviations; Introduction; Constructing the body: the inside story; Deceitful bodies, speaking bodies; The daughter of Leonidas: reading case histories; Blood and the goddesses; Asklepios and women's healing; What does medicine mean? The pain of being human; Reading the past through the present: drugs and contraception in Hippocratic medicine; Gender and the healing role; Imaginary midwives; Green sickness: Hippocrates, Galen and the origins of the 'disease of virgins'; Once upon a text: hysteria from Hippocrates; Conclusion
NotesBibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454849603321 |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Hippocrates' woman : reading the female body in ancient Greece / / Helen King |
Autore | King Helen <1957, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 322 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 618.1/00938 |
Soggetto topico |
Gynecology - Greece - History
Medicine, Greek and Roman Gynecology - Greek influences Women - Greece - History Human body - Social aspects - Greece - History |
ISBN |
1-134-77220-3
1-134-77221-1 1-280-33216-6 9786610332168 0-203-02599-7 0-203-15964-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779946903321 |
King Helen <1957, >
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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