Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians Book

Temkin shows how the perennial appeal of Hippocratic practice helped establish the relationship between scientific medicine and monotheistic religion.

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Temkin (history of medicine emeritus, Johns Hopkins U.) shows how the completely. perennial appeal of Hippocratic practice helped establish the relationship between scientific medicine and monotheistic religion. After the first century, Hippocratic medicine competed with powerful beliefs in religious healers from Asclepius to Jesus. Yet the ascendance of Christianity, Temkin explains, did not diminish the stature of Hippocratic science. In fact, the main legacy of Hippocratic science, according to Temkin, was its ability to resist--to survive--various attempts to spiritualize life Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)