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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454849603321

Autore

King Helen <1957, >

Titolo

Hippocrates' woman : reading the female body in ancient Greece / / Helen King

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-77221-1

1-280-33216-6

9786610332168

0-203-02599-7

0-203-15964-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Disciplina

618.1/00938

Soggetti

Gynecology - Greece - History

Medicine, Greek and Roman

Gynecology - Greek influences

Women - Greece - History

Human body - Social aspects - Greece - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-310) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on texts; Abbreviations; Introduction; Constructing the body: the inside story; Deceitful bodies, speaking bodies; The daughter of Leonidas: reading case histories; Blood and the goddesses; Asklepios and women's healing; What does medicine mean? The pain of being human; Reading the past through the present: drugs and contraception in Hippocratic medicine; Gender and the healing role; Imaginary midwives; Green sickness: Hippocrates, Galen and the origins of the 'disease of virgins'; Once upon a text: hysteria from Hippocrates; Conclusion

NotesBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 have appealed to the material in support of their own theories.Among the conflicting tange of images of women given in the Hippocratic corpus existed one tradition of the female body which says it is radically unlike the male body, behaving in different ways and requiring a different set