Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: The Uses and Meanings of Hippocrates 1 -- David Cantor -- PART I Renaissance Constructions of Hippocratism -- 2 The Power of Paternity: The Father of Medicine Meets the Prince -- of Physicians 21 -- Helen King -- 3 Hippocrates and the Construction of 'Progress' in Sixteenth- and -- Seventeenth-century Medicine 37 -- Thomas Riitten -- 4 The Chemical Hippocrates: Paracelsian and Hippocratic Theory in -- Petrus Severinus' Medical Philosophy 59 -- Jole Shackelford -- PART II The Transformations of Hippocratism in Seventeenth- -- and Eighteenth-century Britain -- 5 The Transformation of Hippocrates in Seventeenth-century Britain 91 -- Andrew Cunningham -- 6 Hippocrates and the Politics of Medical Knowledge in Early -- Moder England 116 -- Robert L. Martensen -- 7 Hippocrates, Bacon, and Medical Meteorology at the Royal -- Society, 1700-1750 136 -- Andrea Rusnock -- PART III Hippocratism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century -- France and North America -- 8 Hippocrates and the Montpellier Vitalists in the French Medical -- Enlightenment 157 -- Elizabeth A. Williams -- 9 The Rhetoric of Hippocrates at the Paris School 178 -- Ann E La Berge -- 10 Making History in American Medical Culture: The Antebellum -- Competition for Hippocrates 200 -- John Harley Warner -- PART IV Twentieth-century Hippocratic Revivals -- 11 Hippocrates American Style: Representing Professional Morality -- in Early Twentieth-century America 239 -- Susan E. Lederer -- 12 Hippocrates, Holism and Humanism in Interwar France 257 -- George Weisz -- 13 The Name and the Word: Neo-Hippocratism and Language in -- Interwar Britain 280 -- David Cantor -- 14 A Model for the New Physician: Hippocrates in Interwar Germany 302 -- Carsten Timmermann.