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Greek Medicine: Hippocrates and the Birth of Science
We often think of ancient Greece through the lens of philosophy or warfare, but the foundations of modern medicine were laid in the quiet spaces of the agora and the battlefield. In this episode, we explore how Hippocrates of Kos and his contemporaries shifted healing from the realm of divine intervention to human observation. We will examine the Hippocratic Oath not as a static document, but as a living ethical framework that emerged during a time when Greek city-states were grappling with plagues and surgical trauma. You will meet figures like Cnidianus and the doctors who traveled with…
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