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200 10$aHippocrates' woman $ereading the female body in ancient Greece /$fHelen King
210  1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d1998.
215   $a1 online resource (341 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 274-310) and index.
327   $aBook 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
327   $aNotesBibliography; Index
330   $aHippocrates' 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
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