Chapter 3 The professional audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics : Patient cases in Hippocratic scientific communication

To summarise our findings, the Hippocratic Epidemics case reports is an example of a text whose intended audiences, despite the ambiguities and historical uncertainties about the texts' composition and transmission, were very firmly delimited as professional and medical. Such closure defines...

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Main Author: Thumiger, Chiara (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
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