HPS318H1 Lecture Notes - Antiphon, Hippocratic Oath, Martin Bernal
20 Jan 2013
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Embrace that all periods have same level of complexity, don"t carry forward progress at least in this course don"t see history as progress. A lot of knowledge is lost, important assumption don"t patronize the past see the past and how it worked how they looked at the world and refeclted and how politics played a part. Some things look familiar and other things vary different. Beware anachronism projecting present day views into the past and avoid that, oreset not teach us about the past take from present the questions put in bag and interrogate the historical sources. Medicine is social cultural and political enterprise. Corpus the beginnings of certain medical tradition and relationship between medicine and doctors. Western medical trad is one of many. Greek great dialogue with what is now egypt and middle east. Sources are scarce how build history and what sources inform our histories. Vases, utensils and archeological artifacts that have remained.
