{"product_id":"hippocrates-in-a-world-of-pagans-and-christians-9780801851292","title":"Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians\u003c\/i\u003e, Temkin shows how the perennial appeal of Hippocratic practice helped establish the relationship between scientific medicine and monotheistic religion. After the first century, Hippocratic medicine competed with powerful beliefs in religious healers from Asclepius to Jesus. Yet the ascendance of Christianity, Temkin explains, did not diminish the stature of Hippocratic science. Hippocrates, after all, saw nature as a divine and orderly power that caused growth and supplied \"health.\" Hippocratic doctors could easily exchange the cult of Asclepius for the worship of Christ. But they could not sacrifice their belief in nature as the basis of health, disease, and therapy without renouncing their science. In compromise, the Church accepted Hippocratic medicine with the proviso that the Christian physician shun all pagan or heretical interpretations of naturalism--he must not, for example, believenature to be divine, the soul a mere function of the brain, or himself the true savior of the sick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Owsei Temkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 5.97w x 0.89d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801851292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOwsei Temkin, \u003c\/b\u003e who holds his medical degree from the University of Leipzig, is William H. Welch Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine and former director of the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine. Widely recognized as one of the leading authorities in his field, Dr. Temkin is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and recipient of the Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in the Humanities from the American Council of Learned Societies. Among his previous books is \u003ci\u003eThe Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginning of Modern Neurology\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Double Face of Janus and Other Essays in the History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter available from Johns Hopkins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44887315808371,"sku":"9780801851292","price":68.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_858d814b-14d3-4079-8ba9-4fd3d05905f7.jpg?v=1776875457","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/hippocrates-in-a-world-of-pagans-and-christians-9780801851292","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}