A Taste of Your Own Medicine: Approaching patients' experiences and sensory concepts in Hippocratic pharmacology
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2017-11-27
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In this thesis, I have ventured to uncover the (female) patient experiences of treatments in the Hippocratic Corpus. I have focused on the recipes found mainly in the gynaecological treatises of the Corpus. The theoretical model constructed to this end consists of two main axes. The first and most important of the two are the sensory concepts used in the recipes. I argue that as sensory terms can be read as concepts that have a wide range of applications and contexts in Greek literature, retracing these contexts allows for the reconstruction of the associations a patient may have had with a recipe that included these concepts. To this end, I have (re)contextualised two sensory terms as sensory concepts. The second strand of research is the cultural associations of the ingredients used. Using both the contexts of the sensory concepts and the ingredients allows me to provide a nuanced reading of recipes from the (female) patients' point of view.
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