Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine, enemy of superstition, pioneer of rationality and fount of eternal wisdom. Statues and drawings show him with a furrowed brow, thinking hard about ...

A statue of the physician Hippocrates stands in the city where he died: Larissa, Greece. ... Hippocrates of Kos was a Greek physician who lived from about 460 B.C. to 375 B.C., ...

The statue came to mind repeatedly as I read M. Gregg Bloche's "The Hippocratic Myth," in which he argues that the ethical legacy of Hippocrates, a professional inheritance as carefully ...