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1. Health in Antiquity

   Edited by Helen King

   How healthy were people in ancient Greece and Rome, and how did they think about maintaining and restoring their health? For students of classics, history or the history of medicine, answers to these and many previously untouched questions are dealt with by renowned ancient historians, classical...

   Published December 10th 2009 by Routledge
2. The Disease of Virgins

   Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty

   By Helen King

   From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study of the origins and history of the disease commonly seen as afflicting young unmarried girls. Understanding of the condition turned puberty and virginity into medical conditions, and Helen King stresses the continuity of this disease...

   Published May 15th 2009 by Routledge
3. Hippocrates' Woman

   Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece

   By Helen King

   Hippocrates' Woman demonstrates the role of Hippocratic ideas about the female body in the subsequent history of western gynaecology. It examines these ideas not only in the social and cultural context in which they were first produced, but also the ways in which writers up to the Victorian period...

   Published October 28th 1998 by Routledge