Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece

by Helen King

Book Overview

Hippocrates' Woman demonstrates the role of Hippocratic ideas about the female body in the subsequent history of western gynaecology. It examines these ideas not only in the social and cultural context in which they were first produced, but also the ways in which writers up to the Victorian period have appealed to the material in support of their own theories.
Among the conflicting tange of images of women given in the Hippocratic corpus existed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415138949
• ISBN13: 9780415138949
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"