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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Hippocratic"”.
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Hippocratic Pain
… manifold functions of pain in the practice of Hippocratic medicine and examines the interpenetration of pain and Hippocratic theories of the body. Chapter One contrasts the Hippocratic view of pain with the modern understanding of the phenomenon. While the experience of pain is actually …
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Thinking about Acting: The use of causal knowledge for the sake of intentional action in Heraclitus, Hippocratic On Regimen and Democritus
… of their plan. Additionally, I examine the Hippocratic treatise *On Regimen*, who presents a holistic knowledge of causes represented by a reductive physical explanation in terms of the powers of fire and water. This framework supports medical decision-making by providing a comprehensive …
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Cures of the body and cures of the soul : from Hippocrates to the early Eastern Christian Fathers.
This study examines the differences between Hippocratic medicine and Eastern Christian medical notions in relation to the human body and mind in health and disease. The aim is to demonstrate that there were two major reasons why the two traditions valued dissimilarly the body and the soul. First, …
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Trust Negotiation for Open Database Access Control
Hippocratic databases are designed to protect the privacy of the individuals whose personal information they contain. This thesis presents a model for providing and enforcing access control in an open Hippocratic database system. Previously unknown individuals can gain access to information in the …
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Impaired consciousness in ancient medical texts
… CE, namely, a selection of treatises from the Hippocratic Corpus, some post-Hellenistic authors, mainly Celsus and Aretaeus, and a number of Galenic treatises. I looked for what we nowadays consider as the main prototypical clinical presentations of impaired consciousness (i.e. delirium, sleep …
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Euthanasia: Does the elderly individual have the right to die?
… topic of euthanasia. Chapter Two focuses on the Hippocratic writings. The role of the church and the idea of death will be explored in Chapter Three. In Chapter Four, various views and policies regarding euthanasia will be examined. Chapter Five takes a look at some medical, economic, and legal …
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Studies in Experimentally Produced High Intestinal Obstruction
… is probably as old as the race itself. The Hippocratic facies— | "... a sharp nose, hollow eyes, collapsed temples; the ears cold, contracted and their lobes turned out; the skin about the forehead being rough, distended, and parched; the color of the whole face being green, black, livid, or …
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Organ Trade in India - The Grey Area
… of medicine the primal goals have followed the Hippocratic Oath of "Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always." (Adams 1891). The questions this perception of early medicine leaves us with are: Have we withdrawn from the compassion and ethics prescribed with the advent of advanced lab …
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Melancholia and Consciousness in Music, Art and Literature
… music, and literature, from the times of the Hippocratic writers to the emergence of the unconscious as a source of artistic inspiration. The three major sections of the dissertation, Ancient Melancholies, Modern Melancholies, and Future Melancholies, are structured throughout by the interplay …
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Studies in Historia
… ιστορ-vocabulary in the only treatises of the Hippocratic collection that use it to any substantial degree: On Generation, On the Nature of the Child and Diseases IV. This material is compared with Aristotle's treatment of the same "embryological" problems in his zoological treatises and the …
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Refugee women’s access to and use of emergency contraceptives as a reproductive health right in Kenya
… accountability, the study relies on the Hippocratic Oath and provisions entrenched under the Health Act Kenya to ensure medical practitioners adhere to the set duty of care to refugee women accessing reproductive health services. Finally, the study recommends the incorporation of an …
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Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ: The Virgin and the Otherworldly Bridegroom in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome
… specifically with a short treatise within the Hippocratic corpus known as the Peri Partheniōn, which describes an illness, predominantly affecting premenarchal girls approaching the appropriate age for marriage, whose symptoms include an erotically charged desire for death. Chapter Two deals …
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The Epistemology of Artefact Comparisons in Early Greek Natural Philosophy and Medicine
… so-called ‘Presocratics’, but also encompasses Hippocratic and Pythagorean texts, thereby placing the use of artefact comparisons as an epistemological tool in the sixth to mid-fourth centuries BC in context. This thesis aims to counter a prevalent scholarly attitude towards these early Greek …