Author: Humphrey MoseleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Phyllon Therapeutikon
Author: Humphrey MoseleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Phyllon Therapeutikon
Author: Humphrey MoseleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages
Author: Joan CaddenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521483780
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book examines how scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in cultural assumptions about gender.
The Science of Woman
Author: Ornella MoscucciPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521447959
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book argues that the definition of femininity as propounded by gynaecological science is a cultural product of a wider, more political context.
Women in Antiquity: New Assessments
Author: Richard HawleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134828918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Explores and expands on scholarly debates on the status and representation women in antiquity; invaluable reading for all students and teachers of ancient history.
Feminist Theory and the Classics
Author: Nancy Sorkin RabinowitzPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317857143
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Provides the first broad introduction to feminist work in classical studies. Including lesbian theory, black feminist theory, American and French feminist theory, classics will never be the same again.
Women's History and Ancient History
Author: Sarah B. PomeroyPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469611163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the lives and roles of women in antiquity. A recurring theme is the relationship between private and public, and many of the essays find that women's public roles develop as a result of their private lives, specifically their family relationships. Essays on Hellenistic queens and Spartan and Roman women document how women exerted political power--usually, but not always, through their relationship to male leaders--and show how political upheaval created opportunities for them to exercise powers previously reserved for men. Essays on the writings of Sappho and Nossis focus on the interaction between women's public and private discourses. The collection also includes discussion of Athenian and Roman marriage and the intrusion of the state into the sexual lives of Greek, Roman, and Jewish women as well as an investigation of scientific opinion about female physiology. The contributors are Sarah B. Pomeroy, Jane McIntosh Snyder, Marilyn M. Skinner, Cynthia B. Patterson, Ann Ellis Hanson, Lesley Dean-Jones, Natalie Boymel Kampen, Mary Taliaferro Boatwright, and Shaye J.D. Cohen.
The Medical Writings of Anonymus Londinensis
Author: Anonymus LondinensisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521170699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Originally published in 1947, this volume provides a dual-text English translation of the Anonymus Londinensis papyrus, an important document of Ancient Greek medical and philosophical ideas from the second century AD. The text also contains a generous introduction, additional notes, together with essays on the nature of Greek thought and medicine. This is a highly informative book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in Classical ideas on health and physiology.
Adversaries and Authorities
Author: G. E. R. LloydPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521556958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This is a wide-ranging exploration of the similarities and differences between ancient Greek and ancient Chinese science and philosophy, concentrating on the period down to AD 300. Professor Lloyd studies such questions as the attitudes towards authority, the practice of confrontational debate, the role of methodological inquiries, the development of techniques of persuasion, the assumptions made about causal explanation and the focus of interest in the study of the heavens and in that of the human body. In each case the Greek and Chinese ways of posing the problems are carefully distinguished to avoid applying either Greek categories to Chinese thought or vice versa. Professor Lloyd shows that the science produced in each ancient civilisation differs in important respects and relates those differences to the values and social institutions in question.
Science, Folklore and Ideology
Author: Geoffrey Ernest Richard LloydPublisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN: 9781853996030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This text takes a set of central topics from ancient Greek medicine and biology - relating especially to beliefs about animals, women and drugs - and studies first the interaction between scientific theorising and folklore, and second the ideological character of ancient scientific inquiry. Within this framework the author looks at the development of zoological taxonomy, the repercussions of prevailing Greek assumptions concerning the inferiority of the female sex on medical practice, pharmacology and anatomy. Anthropology is used to provide a comparative dimension to the discussion of ancent Greek popular beliefs.