Tag: Hippocratic Aphorisms
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Lessons learned from the Greeks: The physician-patient relationship in Hippocratic Gynecology
Jenna NickasNew Brunswick, NJ, USA The medical treatment of women in Classical Greece was a topic not overlooked by the Hippocratic tradition. Much of the Corpus addresses the health of women, especially Epidemics and Diseases of Women. Within this genre two things are certain: all patients were female and all doctors were male. Many clinical…