Splash Biography
HENRY MARAVILLA, Yale Junior Studying Classics, Aspiring Teacher
Major: Classics College/Employer: Yale Year of Graduation: 2026 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
I keep ant colonies as pets and love reading Greek and Latin texts. I am interested in historical biography as well as Classical reception. At the moment, my particular research interest is in Hippocratic reception, especially in the Anti-Vaccine movement. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)H5020: Hippocrates in the Anti-Vaccine Movement in Splash Spring 2025 (Mar. 02, 2025)
Hippocrates is known as the "Father of Medicine" yet we actually know almost nothing about him. In fact, the collection of texts associated with him know as the "Hippocratic Corpus" were not written by him. Galen of Pergamon, a physician in Alexandria, claimed his own work to be an extension of Hippocrates' as a way to enhance the credibility of his own ideas. Following this tradition, the Anti-Vaccine movement makes use of Hippocrates and his associated Hippocratic texts to further their own agendas. In this class, we will look at selections of these texts as well as some anti-vaccine claims on X (formerly Twitter) to examines the misuse and abuse of Hippocrates.
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