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Hippocrates' woman : reading the female body in ancient Greece
- Author
- King, Helen, 1957-
- Title
- Hippocrates' woman : reading the female body in ancient Greece / Helen King.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Description
- xvi, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- URL
- <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0649/98003728-d.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-310) and index.
- Contents
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- 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 oringins of the 'disease of virgins'
- Once upon a text: hysteria from Hippocrates.
- Kinsey subjects
- Medicine history--Greece. Obstetrics and gynecology. Women history--Greece. Midwives.
- ISBN
- 0415138949 (HB) 9780415138949 (HB) 0415138957 (PB) 9780415138956 (PB)