Helen King

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Helen King is affiliated with the following schools: Open University, Liverpool Hope University, University College London, Newcastle University, University of Reading

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According to Wikipedia, Helen King is a British classical scholar and advocate for the medical humanities. She is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at the Open University. She was previously Professor of the History of Classical Medicine and Head of the Department of Classics at the University of Reading.

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Hysteria Beyond Freud (1993) (159)
Can we unlock the potential of IGF-1R inhibition in cancer therapy? (2014) (116)
Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece (1998) (106)
Non-accidental burns in children--are we neglecting neglect? (2006) (105)
The Disease of Virgins: Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty (2003) (74)
Eve's herbs: a history of contraception and abortion in the West (1998) (72)
Contraception and abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance (1993) (69)
Maternal and child psychological sequelae in paediatric burn injuries. (2000) (64)
Bound to Bleed: Artemis and Greek Women (2008) (36)
Introduction: what is health? (2005) (35)
Science, folklore and ideology: studies in the life sciences in Ancient Greece (1984) (32)
The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence (2013) (32)
Greek and Roman Medicine (2001) (28)
Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium (2007) (28)
Health in Antiquity (2004) (26)
Agnodike and the profession of medicine (1986) (25)
Not of woman born: representations of Caesarean birth in medieval and Renaissance culture (1992) (22)
Galen and the widow: towards a history of therapeutic masturbation in ancient gynaecology (2011) (18)
Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe (2012) (17)
Perilous chastity: women and illness in pre-Enlightenment art and medicine (1996) (16)
Green sickness: Hippocrates, Galen and the origins of the “disease of virgins” (1996) (15)
Introduction a la philosophie du mythe. I. Sauver les mythes (1999) (10)
An Infant Femur Bearing Cut Marks from Roman Hambleden, England (2014) (10)
Female fluids in the Hippocratic corpus: how solid was the humoral body? (2013) (8)
Recovering hysteria from history: Herodotus and “the first case of shell shock” (2001) (8)
Side effects of the Yuzpe regimen of emergency contraception and two modifications. (2004) (8)
Metastases to the penis from carcinoma of the stomach. (1987) (8)
History without Historians? Medical History and the Internet (2012) (8)
Producing Woman: Hippocratic Gynaecology (1994) (8)
MEDICAL TEXTS AS A SOURCE FOR WOMEN’S HISTORY (1995) (7)
The politik midwifer: models of midwifery in the work of Elizabeth Cellier. (1993) (7)
On the misuses of medical history (2018) (7)
Medieval Embryology in the Vernacular: The Case of 'De spermate' (review) (2001) (7)
Midwifery, 1700-1800: the man-midwife as competitor (2012) (7)
Narratives of healing: a new approach to the past? (2014) (6)
Hippocrates Now: The ‘Father of Medicine’ in the Internet Age (2019) (6)
Chronic pain and the creation of narrative (1999) (6)
Sowing the field: Greek and Roman sexology (1994) (5)
When is a foetus not a foetus? Diagnosing false conceptions in early modern France (2007) (5)
'As if none understood the art that cannot understand Greek': the education of midwives in seventeenth-century England. (1995) (5)
Women's health and recovery in the Hippocratic corpus (2005) (4)
La Médecine dans l' Antiquité grecque et romaine (2015) (4)
Le diabète de l'adulte: désormais un problème dans le tiers monde (1992) (4)
Food and blood in Hippokratic gynaecology (1995) (3)
USING THE PAST: NURSING AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN ANCIENT GREECE (2015) (3)
Fear of Flute Girls, Fear of Falling (2013) (3)
Hippokratische Gynäkologie: die gynäkologischen Texte des Autors C nach den pseudohippokratischen Schriften De Muliebribus I, II und De Sterilibus (1984) (3)
'First behead your viper’: acquiring knowledge in Galen’s poison stories (2018) (3)
Pseudepigraphic writings: Letters—Embassy—Speech from the Altar—Decree (1992) (2)
Medecine et morale dans l'antiquite (2006) (2)
Chamberlen, Peter (1601–1683) (2004) (2)
The mathematics of sex: one to two, or two to one? (2005) (2)
La maladie et les maladies dans la Collection Hippocratique (1991) (2)
Motherhood and health in the Hippocratic corpus: does maternity protect against disease? (2013) (2)
The power of paternity: the Father of Medicine meets the Prince of Physicians (2002) (2)
Paediatric burns caused by other children. (2008) (2)
The Echo from Within: The Role of Stage Music in Peter Brook's Performance of Shakespeare (2008) (2)
John M Riddle, Eve's herbs: a history of contraception and abortion in the West , Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1997, pp. vii, 341, £26.50 (0-674-27024-X). (1998) (2)
Women and Doctors in Ancient Greece (2018) (2)
Sex and gender: the Hippocratic case of Phaethousa and her beard (2013) (2)
Chapter 5. Rethinking Nosebleeds Gendering Spontaneous Bleedings in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine (2018) (2)
Women's healthcare in the medieval west: texts and contexts (2001) (2)
The Loeb Hippocrates (1997) (1)
Motherhood and Health in the Hippocratic Corpus (2013) (1)
Adversaries and authorities: investigations into Greek and Chinese science (1998) (1)
Between male and female in ancient medicine (2015) (1)
Comparative perspectives on medicine and religion in the ancient world (1999) (1)
Cantarella (E.) Pandora's daughters: the role and status of women in Greek and Roman antiquity . Trans. M. B. Fant. Intro. M. R. Lefkowitz. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv + 229. £23.55 (bound), £7.80 (paper). (1988) (1)
Fighting Through Fiction (2013) (1)
Midwives in History and Society (Book). (1987) (1)
Chamberlen family (per. c.1600–c.1730) (2004) (1)
Beyond the Medical Market-Place: New Directions in Ancient Medicine (1997) (1)
Using subcutaneous fluids in end-of-life care. (2014) (1)
Inside and outside, cavities and containers: the organs of generation in seventeenth-century English medicine (2012) (1)
Opening the body of fluids: Taking in and pouring out in Renaissance readings of Classical women (2020) (1)
An overview of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (2014) (1)
Opening the body of fluids (2021) (1)
Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth-Century Greece: A Preliminary Study@@@Anatomie und Physiognomie in der hellenistischen Plastik: Dargestellt am Pergamonaltar (1997) (1)
Reading the Female Body (1997) (1)
Respiration A. Debru: Le corps respirant: La pensée physiologique chez Galien . (Studies in Ancient Medicine, 13.) Pp. viii + 302. Leiden, etc.: E. J. Brill, 1996. Nlg. 178.50/$112.50. ISBN: 90-04-10436-4. (1999) (0)
H. Grensemann (editor), Hippokratische Gynäkologie: die gynäkologischen Texte des Autors C nach den pseudohippokratischen Schriften De Muliebribus I , II und De Sterilibus, Wiesbaden, Steiner, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiv, 191, DM. 130.00. (1984) (0)
(A.) Krug Heilkunst und Heilkult: Medizin in der Antike. (Beck's archäologische Bibliothek.) Munich: Beck. 1985. Pp. 244, 96 illus. (incl. plates, text figs, plans). DM 38. (1987) (0)
Mikrozellige Polyurethan-Elastomere als Federelement in Automobilanwendungen (1992) (0)
The Budé Soranus (1996) (0)
Paul Burguière, Danielle Gourevitch, Yves Malinas (edd., trs.): Soranos d'Éphèse , Maladies des Femmes, Tome II: Livre II. (Budé.) Pp. xxiv+134 (text double); 15 figs. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1990. (1991) (0)
Engendrer "la femme": Jacques Dubois et Diane de Poitiers (2010) (0)
Celsus. La Préface du De Medicina de Celse . Ed., trans, and comm. P. Mudry. (Bibliotheca Helvetica Romana XIX.) Rome: Institut Suisse de Rome, 1982. Pp. 227. (1984) (0)
(H.) Flashar and (J.) Jouanna Ed. Médecine et morale dans l'antiquité. (Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique, 43.) Vandoeuvres-Genève: Fondation Hardt, 1997. Pp. viii + 415. SFr 70. (1999) (0)
Barbes, sang et genre : afficher la différence dans le monde antique (2008) (0)
Soranos d'Ephèse: Maladies des femmes. Tome IV, livre 4 (2003) (0)
(L.) Brisson Introduction à la philosophie du mythe. I. Sauver les mythes . Paris: Vrin, 1996. Pp. 243. 125F. 2711612716. (1999) (0)
Hippocrate: Tome II: 2e partie: Airs, Eaux, Lieux. Text etabli et traduit. J Jouanna (ed.) (1998) (0)
SORANOS’ GYNAECOLOGY (2003) (0)
A history of our own? (2021) (0)
The limits of normality in Hippocratic gynaecology (2002) (0)
Using Technology to Empower People With Multiple Sclerosis (MS) to Make Shared Decisions About Managing Their Own Healthcare (2021) (0)
How Can Psychiatry Contribute to the Efficiency of High-School Administration? (0)
Where did medicine come from? The origins of medicine in the second century AD (2006) (0)
Can NRTIs Be Omitted from Antiretroviral Therapy for Treatment-Experienced Patients Failing Therapy? (2015) (0)
Interferon-Beta-Induced Pulmonary Sarcoidosis in a 30 Year-Old Male With Multiple Sclerosis: A Case Report (2013) (0)
The Science of Man in Ancient Greece (review) (2002) (0)
A MODIFIED TECHNIQUE FOR INTRA-ANTRAL RADIUM APPLICATION. (1965) (0)
A Potential Cost-Saving Strategy with Dolutegravir and Lamivudine (2016) (0)
Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality (review) (1998) (0)
Intjartnama standby bore, rn 16359, bore dlh-056 completion report. (1994) (0)
Commentary: Fighting through fiction (2013) (0)
The Body beyond Laqueur: Hippocratic Sex and Its Rediscovery (2020) (0)
Teaching ancient medicine: the issues of abortion (2014) (0)
Review: In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination (2004) (0)
Hodges, Nathaniel (1629–1688) (2004) (0)
The Secret Wound: Love, Melancholy and Early Modern Romance (review) (2008) (0)
Bodies of Knowledge: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Greece (review) (2010) (0)
Review: The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine (2002) (0)
Chamberlen, Hugh, the elder (b. 1630x34, d. after 1720) (2004) (0)
A classicist looks at the Hippocratic oath (2003) (0)
The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine (2002) (0)
Acute gastrointestinal bleeding (2021) (0)
Reflection : Phrontis: The Patient Meets the Text (2019) (0)
THE ‘HIPPOCRATIC CORPUS’ (2016) (0)
Hippocratic gynaecological therapy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (1999) (0)
Scedosporium Prolificans Sclerokeratitis Following Pterygium Excision with Mitomycin C: A Case Requiring Enucleation (2017) (0)
Greek Medicine (1995) (0)
Books Received (1965) (0)
Mary J. Dobson. Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England. (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy, and Society in Past Time, vol. 29.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1996. Pp. xix, 647. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-40464-9. (1998) (0)
Galen's Terminology (1995) (0)
Cellier, Elizabeth (fl. 1668–1688) (2004) (0)
(R.) Garland The Greek way of life: from conception to old age. London: Duckworth, 1990. Pp.xiv + 376, 5 plates, 40 text figs. £24.00. (1991) (0)
Galen's Method (1992) (0)
(G. E. R.) Lloyd Polarity and analogy: two types of argumentation in early Greek thought. Bristol: Classical Press, 1987 (1966). Pp. 503. £30.00 (bound), £12.95 (paper). (1989) (0)
‘Children My Age Should Be Reading Books Like Journey to Jo’burg’: Patterns of Anti-Racist Reading in Archived Reader Responses (2022) (0)
R. Jackson, Doctors and Diseases in the Roman Empire . London: British Museum, 1988. Pp. 207, 51 illus. (incl. pls, text figs). ISBN 0-7141-1390-5. (1989) (0)
Illness and other personal crises in Greek and Roman religions (2004) (0)
G. E. R. Lloyd, Science, folklore and ideology: studies in the life sciences in Ancient Greece. Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. xi, 260, £25.00 (£8.95 paperback). (1984) (0)
Ronnie H. Terpening: Charon and the Crossing: Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Transformations of a Myth . Pp. 293; illustrations. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses for Bucknell Univ. Press, 1985. £29.95. (1986) (0)
Kee (H. C.) Medicine, miracle and magic in New Testament times. (Society for New Testament Studies, 55.) Cambridge: University Press, 1986. Pp. x + 170. £19.50. (1988) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Series II: Printed Writings, 1641–1700: Part 3, vol. 5: Elizabeth Cellier, by Elizabeth Cellier (review) (2017) (0)
Books Received (1995) (0)
Hippocratic whispers: telling the story of the life of Hippocrates on the internet (2020) (0)
Reading Roman knowledge (2011) (0)
Josef-Hans Kühn, Ulrich Fleischer, K. Alpers: Index Hippocraticus , Fasc. IV: Π—Ω. Addenda et Corrigenda. Pp. 677–946. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1989. Paper, DM 178. (1990) (0)
(K.) Dowden Death and the maiden: girls' initiation rites in Greek mythology. London and New York: Routledge, 1989. Pp. x + 257, 8 maps. £30.00. (1991) (0)
Seeking Asylum, Speaking Silence (2020) (0)
Yasmin Haskell (Editor).Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period. (Early European Research, 1200–1650, 2.) xxvi + 424 pp., illus., bibl., index. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. €95 (cloth). (2013) (0)
P. N. Singer: Galen: Selected Works: Translated with an Introduction and Notes (World’s Classics). Pp. lii + 448. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Paper, £7.99. ISBN: 0-19-282450-3. (1998) (0)
M. P. Segoloni: Gynaeciorum Muscionis Concordantiae. (Alpha-Omega: Reihe A. Lexika, Indices, Konkordanzen zur Klassischen Philologie, 149.) Pp. 298 +indices. Hildesheim, Zurich, New York: Olms-Weidmann, 1993. Cased, DM 178. (1995) (0)
G E R Lloyd, Adversaries and authorities: investigations into ancient Greek and Chinese science, Ideas in Context Series , Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xvii, 250, £40, $54.95 (hardback 0-521-55331-8); £14.95, $19.95 (paperback 0-521-55695-3). (1998) (0)
Inside and Outside, Cavities and Containers: (2011) (0)
Laurinda S Dixon, Perilous chastity: women and illness in pre-Enlightenment art and medicine , Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1995, pp. xvi, 297, illus., £42.00, $55.00 (hardback 0-8014-3026-7); £17.50, $22.50 (paperback 0-8014-8215-1). (1996) (0)
Book Review:The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England, 1660-1770 Adrian Wilson (1998) (0)
Medicine and the senses: humours, potions and spells (2014) (0)
Book Review:The Wandering Womb: A Cultural History of Outrageous Beliefs about Women Lana Thompson (2000) (0)
The Philosopher-Doctor (1993) (0)
Creating the world: the origins of all things in ancient Greek myth and medicine (2002) (0)
(C.) Sourvinou-Lnwood ‘Reading’ Greek culture: texts and images, rituals and myths . Oxford UP, 1991. Pp. viii + 315, plates. £40. (1993) (0)
AIRS, WATERS, PLACES (1998) (0)
J. T. Vallance: The Lost Theory of Asclepiades of Bithynia . Pp. xi+162. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. £25. (1992) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from An- tiquity into Early Modern Europe edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff, (2017) (0)
(L.M.V.) Totelin Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth- Century Greece (Studies in Ancient Medicine 34). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. Pp. xviii + 366. €121/$179. 9789004171541. (2011) (0)
Knowing the Body: Renaissance Medicine and the Classics (2012) (0)
Thucydides and the Plague (2014) (0)
J.-H. Kuhn, U. Fleischer (edd.): Index Hippocraticus . Fasc. I: A-Δ. Pp. xxxiv + 200. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986. Paper, DM 144. (1988) (0)
J.-H. Kühn, U. Fleischer: Index Hippocraticus. Fasc. III Λ–Π . Pp. 213, numbered 465–678. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1988. Paper, DM 140. (1988) (0)
John M. Riddle, Contraception and abortion from the Ancien1t World to the Renaissance , Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1992, pp. x, 245, illus., $39.95 (0-674-16875-5). (1993) (0)
Anselment Raymond A.. The Realms of Apollo: Literature and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press. 1995. Pp. 316. $47.50. ISBN 0-87413-553-2. (1996) (0)
Owsei Temkin: Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians . Pp. xv + 315; 7 illustrations. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. £28.50. (1992) (0)
Classical Medicine & the Origins of Gynecology: A Review Essay Midwifery, Obstetrics, and the Rise of Gynecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium; Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England (2008) (0)
(G. E. R.) Lloyd The revolutions of wisdom: studies in the claims and practice of ancient Greek science. (Sather classical lectures, 52.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989 (paper). (1987, bound.) Pp.xii + 468. $12.95. (1991) (0)
The perceived effects of attending a Pilates class (2002) (0)

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