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Women's Bodies in Classical Greek Science (Paperback, New edition)
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Women's Bodies in Classical Greek Science (Paperback, New edition)
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In this book Professor Dean-Jones gives a close analysis of
theories concerning women's bodies in such authors as the
Hippocratics and Aristotle. She demonstrates the centrality of
menstruation in classical theories of female physiology, pathology,
and reproduction, and suggests that this had both negative and
positive repercussions in attitudes towards women's bodies in that
society. In particular, she argues that many of the medical
principles governing clinical practice on male patients derived
from the observation that healthy women menstruate and women who
are seriously ill tend not to. Many of the primary sources dealt
with are not yet accessible in English, and to date research done
on this material has appeared only in discrete articles, in several
languages, and scattered in various publications. In addition to
presenting many original theories, therefore, the book is important
in assembling and presenting both original texts and the results of
scholarly research on these texts in a way that is fully accessible
to the non-specialist.
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