title: The importance of having medical knowledge as a layman. The Hippocratic treatise affections in the context of the Hippocratic corpus.
abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore various aspects regarding the Hippocratic treatise Affections, mainly its relationships to other Hippocratic treatises concerning genre and the ideology of the author, with the aim of placing this work within its scientific and sociocultural context.
authors.affiliation: Newcastle University.
authors.forename: Pilar Pérez
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Cañizares
mesh_terms: D006266:Health Education / Q000266:history*; D057220:Health Literacy / Q000266:history*; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D012014:Reference Books, Medical; D013782:Textbooks as Topic / Q000592:standards