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To summarise our findings, the Hippocratic Epidemics case |
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reports is an example of a text whose intended audiences, |
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despite the ambiguities and historical |
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uncertainties about the texts composition and |
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transmission, were very firmly |
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delimited as professional and medical. Such closure |
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defines this phase of ancient |
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medicine as particularly territorial and technical , on |
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the one hand no literary |
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pretence, nor broader intellectual appeal of the kind |
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shown by Galen is on the |
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horizon of these writers, nor any explicit attempt to win |
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over lay audiences, at |
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least in the Epidemics.77 Also, it tells us something |
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about the epistemology and |
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didactics at work in the Hippocratic handling of |
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patients, which we can summarise |
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as follows: non-theoretical, observation-based and data- |
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centred; self-standing, |
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i.e. not relying on a system of knowledge or a syllabus |
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(compare Galen s |
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frequent recommendation on which of his books one should |
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read first, which are |
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for beginners, what should follow, etc.), but needing to |
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support itself by insuring |
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the memorisation of the repertoires of observations, |
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procedures, risks and |
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mistakes; lack of a synthesis of the empirical data, such |
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as a form of diagnosis, |
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or of the epistemological extension that might turn the |
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observed case into an |
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experiment .78 The Hippocratic use of individual evidence |
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the patient case |
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remained in this early stage a communication of pure |
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data. Individual memory, |
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in conclusion, the reception of an individual intellect a |
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future student, a training |
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doctor characterises the audience of these texts, |
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motivates and even determines, |
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concretely, their very existence. |
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Date Published: 2024-06-01 10:20:06 |
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Identifier: oapen-20.500.12657-30635 |
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