La medicina en tiempos de Hipócrates
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: Hippocrates, who was born in the IVth century BC, was a doctor of great prestige, author of a great number of documents that include 72 books and 59 treaties that integrate the Hippocratic Collection or Corpus Hippocraticum which was compiled by Ptolomeo in the great Library of Alexandria, where he created a great cultural center with the idea of assembling the totality of human knowledge. The Hippocratic method expresses a rational attitude, free of supernatural and religious interpretations; throughout direct observation and study of the patient and not the disease, which allows the assessment of an honest evaluation and helps the natural forces of the human body. The Hippocratic Collection includes anatomical, physiological, general pathology, gynecological, obstetrics, mental diseases, surgerical, diagnostic, prognosis and treatment concepts; influencing, relevantly the ethics. This is the origin of the, still valid, Hippocratic Oath. The fundamental aspects of the document are: Recibido 03/01/2007 Aceptado 20/01/2007
Author: Leonardo Katz Bercovitz
Language: Spanish
Topic: History of Medicine Studies
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2207485996