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

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This text is a study of the origins of gynaecology, an exploration of how the interior workings of the female body were understood and the influence of Hippocrates' theories on the gynaecology of subsequent ages.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: King, Helen, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Temas:
Gynecology > Greece > History.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Gynecology > Greek influences.
Women > Greece > History.
Human body > Social aspects > Greece > History.
Human body > Social aspects.
Women > history
Women's Health > history
Gynecology > history
History, Ancient
Human Body
Gynécologie > Grèce > Histoire.
Médecine grecque et romaine.
Gynécologie > Influence grecque.
Femmes > Grèce > Histoire.
Corps humain > Aspect social.
Corps humain > Aspect social > Grèce > Histoire.
MEDICAL > Reproductive Medicine & Technology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Women's Health.
Gynecology
Gynecology > Greek influences
Human body > Social aspects
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Women
Vrouwen.
Gezondheid.
Geschiedschrijving.
Griekse oudheid.
Sociologie du corps.
Médecine ancienne > Grèce.
Greece
Electronic book.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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