Scrivere la medicina. La trascrizione dei miracoli di Asclepio e il Corpus Hippocraticum

The practice of medicine in ancient Greece and Near-Eastern countries was deeply related to the medium of writing in all of its forms - tablets, papyrus rolls, loose sheets -, and this had an impact not only on the preservation and circulation of scientific knowledge, but also on some chatacteristics of the texts of the so-called Hippocratic corpus