Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians

This text examines how Hippocratic practice helped establish the relationship between scientific medicine and monotheistic religion. After the first century Hip... » 

This text examines how Hippocratic practice helped establish the relationship between scientific medicine and monotheistic religion. After the first century Hippocratic medicine competed with religious healers such as Jesus, and yet religious growth did not lower the status of Hippocratic science. «