Neo-Hippocratism was an influential movement and was the subject of numerous conversations and theorizations between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. The movement saw a revival in popularity with physicians after the First World War.[1] It sought to reappraise the role of Hippocrates and Hippocratic medicine and was closely associated with the idea of the holistic treatment of the patient.[2]
The popularity of neo-Hippocratism has been seen as a reaction to the growing systematisation and professionalism of medicine which some physicians saw as reductionist and failing to treat the whole person.[3] Neo-Hippocratism is described as a rational and methodical method of seeing the body as a whole. Of examining a human in their entirety and “considers all medical and or internistic therapeutic agents- psychical, dietetic, chemical , biological, and physical- and applies them according to the indications of the individual patient under severe control of the continuous diagnosis of the person.[4]
History edit
The expression, neo-hippocratism is said to been first coined by Arturo Castiglioni in 1926.[5] One of the movement's principal promoters was Alexander Polycleitos Cawadias (1884–1971).[6]
References edit
- ^ Fournier, Frioux, Patrick, Stephane (September 16, 2022). "The Heritage of Neo-Hippocratism in Environmental Thought (Sixteenth-Nineteenth Century)".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Carter, Simon. (2007). Rise and Shine: Sunlight, Technology and Health. Oxford: Berg. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-84788-331-5.
- ^ Edwards, Martin. (2007). Control and the Therapeutic Trial: Rhetoric and Experimentation in Britain, 1918-48. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p. 155. ISBN 978-90-420-2273-7.
- ^ Cawadias, A. P. (1931). "Neo-Hippocratism". The British Medical Journal. 2 (3696): 869. ISSN 0007-1447. JSTOR 25341238.
- ^ ASCHNER, BERNARD (1941). "Neo-Hippocratism in Everyday Practice". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 10 (2): 260–271. ISSN 0007-5140. JSTOR 44440655.
- ^ Cantor, David, ed. (2016). Reinventing Hippocrates. Abingdon: Routledge. p. 256. ISBN 978-1-351-90529-9.
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