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55 entries match Ethics & Law [K01.750 / K01.690] · Historiography & General Works [K01.900]

1566

#13060

Vocum, quae apud Hippocratem sunt, collectio. Cum annotationibus Bartholomaei Eustachii . . . Eiusdemque Libellus de Multitudine.

First edition in Latin edited by Eustachi of the glossary to Hippocrates by the first century Greek grammarian Erotianus. Erotianus's work contains the earliest list of the writings of Hippocrates, including some now …

1682

#10017

Mercurius compitalitius, sive, Index medico-practicus.per decisiones, cautiones, animadversiones, castigationes & observationes in sugulis affectibus praeter naturam et praesidiis medicis, deaeteticis, cheirurgicis & pharmaceuticis... Accessit appendix de medici munere.

Discusses 63 topics on medical ethics and decorum, patient behavior, medical diagnosis, prognosis, and practice guidelines, including how to relate to the patient in all matters, including extreme old age and death. "…

1879

#9028

The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states, including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1896

#444.1

The diary of a resurrectionist 1811-1812, to which are added an account of the resurrection men in London and a short history of the passing of the Anatomy Act.

First-hand account of the activities of the so-called “sack-em-up” men who flourished in England and Scotland until passage in 1832 of the Anatomy Act provided legal means for physicians to obtain cadavers for dissect…

1897

#12198

Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1902

#2129

Dangerous trades: the historical, social, and legal aspects of industrial occupations as affecting health, by a number of experts.

A collective work edited by Oliver. Digital fascimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903

#12535

Une version syriaque des aphorismes d'Hippocrate. Texte et traduction par H. Pognon. 2 vols.

Edition of Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds arabe 6734, a Syriac manuscript copied on 10 October 1205 by a physician, probably a Jacobite or Melchite naned Behnam, but nothing in the codex indicates the author/…

1948

#6992

[Trials of] Burke and Hare, edited by William Roughead. Third edition.

Notable British Trials Series. Transcripts of the trials of the most famous "resurrection men", with related documents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1953

#6623.01

The doctor and the devils.

The great lyric poet’s screenplay based on the notorious career of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased bodies for dissection from the resurrectionists/murderers, Burke and Hare. This was the first screenplay that…

1967

#10396

The origins of the National Health Service: The medical services of the New Poor Law, 1834-1871.

1967

#10644

Hippocrate, Du régime. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On regimen of the Hippocratic Collection. The treatise dates to the late 5th or early 4th century BCE.

1970

#10689

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XI: De la génération. De la nature de l'enfant. Des maladies IV. Du foetus de huit mois. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection about generation or considered to be about it: On generation, and On the nature of the child, both dated…

1972

#2199.1

The angel of Bethesda [1724] edited, with introduction and notes by Gordon W. Jones.

The only large systematic compilation of medical knowledge prepared in the Thirteen Colonies before the American revolution. The manuscript, which Mather finished in 1724, remained unpublished in the American Antiquar…

1972

#10684

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome VI, 2e partie: Du régime des maladies aiguës, Appendice, De l'aliment, De l'usage des liquides. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises of different periods devoted to nutrition: On regimen in acute diseases (in two versions, with the second traditionally identified as th…

1975

#12171

Iohannis Alexandrini commentaria in sextum librum Hippocratis epidemiarum. Edited and critically annotated by C. D. Pritchet.

1977

#12174

Palladius Kommentar zu Hippokrates ‘De fracturis’ und seine Parallelversion under dem Namen des Stephanus von Alexandria. Edited by Dieter Irmer. [Hamburger Philologische Studien 45].

1978

#10691

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XIII: Des lieux dans l'homme, Du système des glandes, Des fistules, Des hémorroïdes, De la vision, Des chairs, De la dentition. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection concerning anatomy, physiology, and pathology with the following possible periods of orig…

1981

#10834

A bibliography on animal rights and related matters.

"... restricted to literature in the English language, with over 3200 entries; it is also confined to the thought and practices of the Western world, from Biblical times to 1980." Concerns much on animal experimentati…

1982

#9752

Cinq cents ans de bibliographie hippocratique, 1473-1982.

Includes 3332 numbered entries of works concerning Hippocrates and the Hippocratic corpus with index of author's names with their Latin form (particularly helpful for Renaissance Latinized names) and index of modern a…

1983

#10687

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome X, 2e partie: Maladies II. Texte établi et traduit by Jacques Jouanna.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On diseases II from the Hippocratic Collection, possibly from the second half of the fifth century BCE.

1983

#12173

Stephanus the Philosopher. A commentary on the Prognosticon of Hippocrates. Edited and translated by John M. Duffy. [CMG XI 1,2]

1984

#9753

Concordance des oeuvres hippocratiques. Éditée par Gilles Maloney et Winnie Frohn, avec la collaboration du Dr. Paul Potter. 5 vols.

Iintroductory material in French; text in Greek.

1984

#9822

Bibliografia Hipocrática.

Alphabetical bibliography by author's name of all scholars, physicians, and others who studied the Hippocratic Collection and published about it. Entries include a brief biography of the authors, transcription of the …

1985

#8297

Hippocrates Latinus: Repertorium of Hippocratic writings in the Latin Middle Ages. Revised edition with additions and corrections.

A systematic attempt to gather the names and locations of manuscripts on the individual treatises that circulated in the Latin West before 1500 under the name or aegis of Hippocrates of Cos.

1988

#10643

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome V, 1ère partie: Des vents. De l'art. Texte établi et traduit par Jacques Jouanna.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On winds and On the art of medicine from the Hippocratic Corpus. Both treatises date to the final decades of the 5th cent. BCE. On winds claim…

1989

#8423

Index Hippocraticus Cui elaborando interfuerunt sodales Thesauri Linguae Graecae Hamburgensis. Edited by Joseph-Hans Kühn and Ulrich Fleischer.

There have been several supplements, etc. "This index contains the entire vocabulary (with the exception of the article and a few particles) of the complete writings constituting the Corpus Hippocraticum. Quotations a…

1989

#12414

Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.

1990

#10636

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 1ère partie: De l'ancienne médecine. Texte établi et traduit par Jacques Jouanna.

One of the most emblematic treatises of the Hippocratic Collection. The author, a physician presumably associated with Hippocrates but otherwise unidentified, illustrates the value of scientific medicine sometime betw…

1995

#13655

The health of prisoners: Historical essays edited by Richard Creese, W. F. Bynum and J. Bearn

1997

#8226

Corpus Hippocraticum: Verzeichnis der hippokratischen und pseudohippokratischen Schriften.

Revised edition (2013) is available online at this link: http://cmg.bbaw.de/online-publikationen/hippokrates_2013_02.pdf

1997

#10361

Subjected to science: Human experimentation in America before the Second World War.

1997

#12172

John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ Epidemics VI Fragments. Edition and translation by John M. Duffy. T. A. Bell, et al, editors and translators, John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ on the Nature of the Child. [CMG XI 1,4].

1998

#10685

Oeuvres complètes, Tome VIII: Plaies, Nature des os, Coeur, Anatomie. Texte établi et traduit par Marie-Paul Duminil.

Greek text with facing French translation and study of four short treatises of the Hippocratic Collection on anatomy and traumatology of different periods and origins: On sores (probably 5th cent. BCE), On the nature …

2002

#7536

Sexual blackmail: A modern history.

2003

#9601

Le piante medicinali dal Corpus Hippocraticum.

2003

#9898

Experimenting with humans and animals: From Galen to animal rights.

2003

#10018

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 3ème partie: La maladie sacrée. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France).

Until Hippocrates epilepsy was believed to be religious in origin; Hippocrates provided the first medical description of the disease.

2004

#9996

The Italian boy: A tale of murder and body-snatching in 1830s London.

2006

#9462

Bad medicine: Doctors doing harm since Hippocrates.

The paperback edition published in 2007 included a new epilogue by the author in response to critics of the controversial hardback edition.

2008

#9600

Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth-and fourth-century Greece.

"... the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological an…

2008

#10635

Hippocrate, tome XII, 1ère partie, Nature de la femme. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Boubon. (Collection des universités de France)

A gynecological treatise from the Hippocratic Collection. This one is supposed to come from the School of Cnidus or to use Cnidian material and is generally dated to mid 4th century BCE.

2009

#9332

The anatomy murders: Being the true and spectacular history of Edinburgh's notorious Burke and Hare and of the man of science who abetted them in the commission of their most heinous crimes.

2009

#9811

The theatre of the body: Staging death and embodying life in early-modern London.

"...The book takes as its specific focus seventeenth-century London, in a significant study encompassing the period from the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons (1540) to the staging of Edward R…

2012

#9330

The doctor dissected: A cultural history of the Burke and Hare murders.

2012

#12676

Epidemics in context: Greek commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic tradition. Edited by Peter E. Pormann.

2013

#10638

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome III, 1re partie: Pronostic. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna, Anargyros Anastasiou, and Caroline Magdelaine.

This treatise on prognostication in acute diseases was possibly written by Hippocrates himself; or if not, by a physician close to him, sometime during the second half of the 5th century, before 410 BCE.

2014

#10542

Female circumcision and clitoridectomy in the United States: A history of a medical treatment.

"From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). Durin…

2015

#8431

The Hippocratic Corpus: Content and context.

2016

#10012

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome IV, 1ère partie: Epidémies I et III. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France.)

Greek text with facing French translation. Epidemics I and III, by a physician of Hippocrates' milieu, possibly by Hippocrates himself, sometime around 410 BCE

2017

#9821

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XVI: Problèmes hippocratiques. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna et Alessia Guardasole. (Collection des universités de France).

Greek text with facing French translation of 130 problems (some in the way of Hippocratic medicine and others not) compiled by an anonymous Christian author from the Byzantine period, 7th to 10th/11th century.