Hippocrates' woman : reading the female body in ancient Greece / Helen King.
Τύπος υλικού: ΚείμενοΛεπτομέρειες δημοσίευσης: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.Περιγραφή: 1 online resource (xvi, 322 pages) : illustrationsΤύπος περιεχομένου:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0203159640
- 9780203159644
- 0203025997
- 9780203025994
- 9780415138949
- 0415138949
- 9780415138956
- 0415138957
- Gynecology -- Greece -- History
- Medicine, Greek and Roman
- Gynecology -- Greek influences
- Women -- Greece -- History
- Human body -- Social aspects -- Greece -- History
- Gyn�ecologie -- Gr�ece -- Histoire
- M�edecine grecque et romaine
- Gyn�ecologie -- Influence grecque
- Femmes -- Gr�ece -- Histoire
- Corps humain -- Aspect social
- MEDICAL -- Reproductive Medicine & Technology
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Women's Health
- Gynecology
- Gynecology -- Greek influences
- Human body -- Social aspects
- Medicine, Greek and Roman
- Women
- Greece
- Women -- history
- Women's Health -- history
- Gynecology -- history
- History, Ancient
- Human Body
- Greece
- 618.1/00938 21
- RG59 .K56 1998eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-310) and index.
Cover -- HIPPOCRATES' WOMAN -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE ON TEXTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 CONSTRUCTING THE BODY -- Like a virgin -- The complete woman -- 2 DECEITFUL BODIES, SPEAKING BODIES -- 3 THE DAUGHTER OF LEONIDAS -- The daughter of Leonidas as a pink raven -- Permitted questions in the Hippocratic research programme -- The daughter of Leonidas as a black raven -- 4 BLOOD AND THE GODDESSES -- The strangled goddess -- Artemis releaser -- Chaste herb, virgin goddess -- The menstrual sacrifice -- 5 ASKLEPIOS AND WOMEN'S HEALING -- 6 WHAT DOES MEDICINE MEAN? -- Translating Hippocratic pain -- Aelius Aristides: a patient in pain -- 7 READING THE PAST THROUGH THE PRESENT -- What counts as contraception? -- What do women know? -- What do women want? -- When is a purge not an abortion? -- Testing folk remedies -- The efficacy of the placebo -- Beyond drugs -- 8 GENDER AND THE HEALING ROLE -- 9 IMAGINARY MIDWIVES -- 10 GREEN SICKNESS -- 11 ONCE UPON A TEXT -- Labels and origins: a name without a disease? -- Definitions: the textual tradition -- Hippocratic hysteria: the womb and its destinations -- Plato and Aretaeus: the wild womb? -- Stifling and suffocation: the development of the textual tradition -- Galen and his influence: winners and losers in the textual tradition -- Further contributions to the tradition: the Greek East -- The Latin West -- The Arab world -- The meeting of three worlds -- Tradition or truth? -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 CONSTRUCTING THE BODY: THE INSIDE STORY -- 2 DECEITFUL BODIES, SPEAKING BODIES -- 3 THE DAUGHTER OF LEONIDAS: READING CASE HISTORIES -- 4 BLOOD AND THE GODDESSES -- 5 ASKLEPIOS AND WOMEN'S HEALING -- 6 WHAT DOES MEDICINE MEAN? THE PAIN OF BEING HUMAN -- 7 READING THE PAST THROUGH THE PRESENT: DRUGS AND CONTRACEPTION IN HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE -- 8 GENDER AND THE HEALING ROLE -- 9 IMAGINARY MIDWIVES -- 10 GREEN SICKNESS: HIPPOCRATES, GALEN AND THE ORIGINS OF THE 'DISEASE OF VIRGINS' -- 11 ONCE UPON A TEXT: HYSTERIA FROM HIPPOCRATES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
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