Helen King

Hippocrates' Woman (eBook, PDF)

Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Gynecology in ancient Greece originated in the myth of the first woman Pandora, whose beautiful appearance was seen to cover her dangerous insides. This book explores how Greek healers understood the interior workings of the female body, and how gynecology was based on ideas about women and their bodies found in myth and ritual. Helen King also presents a detailed account of how doctors twisted ancient Greek texts into ways of controlling women's behavior, and how later medicine diagnosed hysteria and recommended clitoridectomy by claiming ancient Greek origins which never existed. "Hippocrates' Woman" provides a provocative insight into the origins of gynecology and the influence of the early study and medical texts on later medical practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134772216
• Artikelnr.: 41502776

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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