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How healthy were people in ancient Greece and Rome, and how did
they think about maintaining and restoring their health? For
students of classics, history or the history of medicine, answers
to these and many previously untouched questions are dealt with by
renowned ancient historians, classical scholars and archaeologists.
Using a multidisciplined approach, the contributors assess the
issues surrounding health in the Greco-Roman world from prehistory
to Christian late antiquity. Sources range from palaeodemography to
patristic and from archaeology to architecture and using these,
this book considers what health meant, how it was thought to be
achieved, and addresses how the ancient world can be perceived as
an ideal in subsequent periods of history.
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across
a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas
Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of
Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud
through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical
stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade from the
mid-sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Agnodike, the 'first
midwife' who disguises herself as a man and then exposes herself to
her potential patients, and Phaethousa, who grows a beard after her
husband leaves her, are stories from the ancient world that
resonated in the early modern period in particular. Tracing the
reception of these tales shows how they provided continuity despite
considerable change in medicine, being the common property of those
on different sides of professional disputes about women's roles in
both medicine and midwifery. The study reveals how different genres
used these stories, changing their characters and plots, but always
invoking the authority of the classics in discussions of sexual
identity. The study raises important questions about the nature of
medical knowledge, the relationship between texts and observation,
and the understanding of sexual difference in the early modern
world beyond the one-sex model.
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across
a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas
Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of
Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud
through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical
stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade from the
mid-sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Agnodike, the 'first
midwife' who disguises herself as a man and then exposes herself to
her potential patients, and Phaethousa, who grows a beard after her
husband leaves her, are stories from the ancient world that
resonated in the early modern period in particular. Tracing the
reception of these tales shows how they provided continuity despite
considerable change in medicine, being the common property of those
on different sides of professional disputes about women's roles in
both medicine and midwifery. The study reveals how different genres
used these stories, changing their characters and plots, but always
invoking the authority of the classics in discussions of sexual
identity. The study raises important questions about the nature of
medical knowledge, the relationship between texts and observation,
and the understanding of sexual difference in the early modern
world beyond the one-sex model.
From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study
of the origins and history of the disease commonly seen as
afflicting young unmarried girls. Understanding of the condition
turned puberty and virginity into medical conditions, and Helen
King stresses the continuity of this disease through history,
depsite enormous shifts in medical understanding and
technonologies, and drawing parallels with the modern illness of
anorexia. Examining its roots in the classical tradition all the
way through to its extraordinary survival into the 1920s, this
study asks a number of questions about the nature of the disease
itself and the relationship between illness, body images and what
we should call'normal' behaviour. This is a fascinating and clear
account which will prove invaluable not just to students of
classical studies, but will be of interest to medical professionals
also
Is health the absence of disease, or a more positive state of
happiness and well-being? How healthy were people in ancient Greece
and Rome, and how did they think about maintaining and restoring
their health? Answers to these and many previously untouched
questions are dealt with by renowned ancient historians, classical
scholars and archaeologists. Using a multi-disciplined approach,
the contributors assess the issues surrounding health in the
Greco-Roman world from prehistory to Christian late antiquity .
Sources range from palaeodemography to patristics and from
archaeology to architecture and using these, this book considers
what health meant, how it was thought to be achieved, and addresses
how the ancient world can be perceived as an ideal in subsequent
periods of history. For anyone studying Classics, The History of
Medicine this book provides a fascinating insight into the health
and perceptions of health in antiquity. A study aid must.
When does a young girl's behaviour become a disease? In
sixteenth-century Europe, the disease of virgins, or green
sickness, was seen as a common disorder affecting young unmarried
girls. Its symptoms included weakness, dietary disturbance, lack of
menstruation and most significantly, a change in skin colour.
Understanding of the condition turned puberty and virginity into
medical problems, and proposed to cure them by bloodletting, diet,
exercise, and marriage. Helen King examines the origins and history
of the disease, from its roots in the classical tradition to its
extraordinary survival into the 1920s, despite changes in how the
mechanisms of puberty and menstruation were understood, and
enormous shifts in medical theories and technologies. From
menstrual disturbance to eating disorders, from liver disease to
blood disorder, the disease of virgins has been adjusted throughout
its history to fit medical fashions. However, little changed in the
underlying ideas about the female body, and the need to regulate
the sexuality of young women. This compelling study poses a number
of questions about the nature of disease itself and the
relationship between illness, body image and what
In ancient Greece, gynaecology originated in the myth of the first
woman Pandora, whose beautiful appearance was seen to cover her
dangerous "insides". This book demonstrates how ancient Greek
healers read the signs offered by their patients' bodies, arguing
that medicine was based on ideas about women and their bodies found
in myth and ritual. Helen King deploys a wide range of comparative
material from the social sciences to discuss religious healing,
chronic pain and the creation of a powerful self-image by aspiring
healers. She outlines how nursing and midwifery have tried to
create their own versions of the ancient Greek past to give
themselves great status, and presents a detailed account of how
doctors twisted ancient Greek texts into ways of controlling
women's behaviour. Finally she analyzes how later medicine, by
diagnosing "hysteria" and by recommending practices such as
clitoridectomy, gave its decisions authority by claiming ancient
Greek origins which never existed. The text provides an insight
into the origins of gynaecology and the influence of the early
study and medical texts on later medical practices and theories up
to the Victorian era.
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.
The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a
compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the
inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a
subfield of medicine. This collection was first published in 1566,
with a second edition in 1586/8 and a third, running to 1097 folio
pages, in 1597. While examining the origins of the compendium,
Helen King here concentrates on its reception, looking at a range
of different uses of the book in the history of medicine from the
sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Looking at the competition and
collaboration among different groups of men involved in childbirth,
and between men and women, she demonstrates that arguments about
history were as important as arguments about the merits of
different designs of forceps. She focuses on the eighteenth
century, when the 'man-midwife' William Smellie found his
competence to practise challenged on the grounds of his allegedly
inadequate grasp of the history of medicine. In his lectures,
Smellie remade the 'father of medicine', Hippocrates, as the
'father of midwifery'. The close study of these texts results in a
fresh perspective on Thomas Laqueur's model of the defeat of the
one-sex body in the eighteenth century, and on the origins of
gynaecology more generally. King argues that there were three
occasions in the history of western medicine on which it was
claimed that women's difference from men was so extensive that they
required a separate branch of medicine: the fifth century BC, and
the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. By looking at all three
occasions together, and by tracing the links not only between
ancient Greek ideas and their Renaissance rediscovery, but also
between the Renaissance compendium and its later owners, King
analyzes how the claim of female 'difference' was shaped by
specific social and cultural conditions. Midwifery, Obstetrics and
the Rise of Gynaecology makes a genuine contribution not only to
the history of medicine and its subfield of gynaecology, but also
to gender and cultural studies.
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This book is available as open access through the Knowledge
Unlatched programme and is available on
www.bloomsburycollections.com. We need to talk about Hippocrates.
Current scholarship attributes none of the works of the
'Hippocratic corpus' to him, and the ancient biographical
traditions of his life are not only late, but also written for
their own promotional purposes. Yet Hippocrates features powerfully
in our assumptions about ancient medicine, and our beliefs about
what medicine - and the physician himself - should be. In both
orthodox and alternative medicine, he continues to be a model to be
emulated. This book will challenge widespread assumptions about
Hippocrates (and, in the process, about the history of medicine in
ancient Greece and beyond) and will also explore the creation of
modern myths about the ancient world. Why do we continue to use
Hippocrates, and how are new myths constructed around his name? How
do news stories and the internet contribute to our picture of him?
And what can this tell us about wider popular engagements with the
classical world today, in memes, 'quotes' and online?
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Lippincott, 1875
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wards trying to imagine myself a resident of London, with its
ever-varying sights to attract the eye, and its busy noise to
gratify the industrious ear and break the monotony of an uneventful
life. CHAPTER III. I Think I have never described my home and my
father; and as they are of concern to the present, it is eminently
fitting that I devote one of my chapters to a description of them.
First, papa is as fine a looking man as one would pick out of five
hundred who tread the streets of great cities. I do not trust alone
to my own bias when I say this, for many others have told me so.
And as for his mind, it must be a well-filled store-house, else the
rector, with his every Sabbath afternoon visit to Loch Severn,
would have long since exhausted its intellectual resources. Indeed,
for the past fourteen years, as far back as I can go in memory,
Doctor Martyn, the rector, has passed his Sabbath afternoons
regularly with papa, coming in at the little garden gate
immediately after luncheon, and remaining to tea; and this mutual
interchange of views upon all subjects could not fail to be of
profit to both of them. Loch Severn is built after the Elizabethan
plan, with large, airy rooms and wide window-seats, with scarce a
window in its whole structure but that one might say of it who sat
therein, "What perfect scenery what a restful, winsome nook " We
had no portrait-gallery, for our ancestry was neithernumerous nor
conspicuous on my father's side. And on my mother's?well, into that
sacred and charmed circle of knights and baronets neither my papa
nor myself ever dared to intrude; nor, indeed, had we any
disposition to do so. Mamma, my beautiful, angel mamma, ran off and
married papa, and that is how they came to get married; for had old
Dudley Montague appeared on the sc...
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