Hippocrates' Woman

Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-13894-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

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 of therapies. This book sets this model within the context of Greek mythology, especially the myth of Pandora and her difference from men, to explore the image of the body as something to be read.
Hippocrates' Woman presents an arresting 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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Gynäkologie, Geburtshilfe
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 Constructing the Body; Chapter 2 Deceitful Bodies, Speaking Bodies; Chapter 3 The Daughter of Leonidas; Chapter 4 Blood and the Goddesses; Chapter 5 Asklepios and Women’s Healing; Chapter 6 What Does Medicine Mean?; Chapter 7 Reading the Past Through the Present; Chapter 8 Gender and the Healing Role; Chapter 9 Imaginary Midwives; Chapter 10 Green Sickness; Chapter 11 Once Upon a Text; concl Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Helen King is a Wellcome Trust Research fellow and Lecturer in the Departments of Classics and History at the University of Reading. Her wide range of publications on women and medicine includes Hysteria Beyond Freud (1993).