Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece by Helen King

Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece

Helen King

344 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction classics feminism history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 t...

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