Rütten Thomas
School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle, UK.
Med Secoli. 2005;17(2):443-68.
The Hippocratic commentaries represent a genre utilised not only by university teachers and so-called "medical philologists", but also by working doctors, personal physicians, and other medical practitioners. As such, the genre of the commentary is located at a crucial point of intersection between medical history, theory, and practice, as well as between orthodox and "alternative" conceptions of medicine; the commentaries are thus ideally placed to reflect the diversity of early modern medicine as well as the larger cultural context in which it was practised and debated. In this paper, some general remarks on researching Hippocrates commentaries are presented and followed by two test cases: the commentaries on the Hippocratic Letters and on the Hippocratic Oath.
希波克拉底评注代表了一种不仅被大学教师和所谓的“医学文献学家”所使用的体裁，也被在职医生、私人医生和其他医学从业者所使用。因此，评注这种体裁处于医学史、理论与实践的关键交叉点，以及正统医学观念与“替代”医学观念之间；评注因此处于理想位置，能够反映早期现代医学的多样性以及其得以实践和讨论的更广泛文化背景。本文首先对研究希波克拉底评注作了一些一般性评论，随后是两个测试案例：对《希波克拉底书信》和《希波克拉底誓言》的评注。
