Medicine and the making of Roman women : gender, nature and authority from Celsus to Galen / Rebecca Flemming.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2000.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 453 p. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Notes to the reader. Abbreviations. Introduction: Medicine and the historical relations of gender, nature and authority. Pt. 1. A brief introduction to Roman medicine: 1. The social and cultural formation of Roman medicine 2. A rough guide to the conceptual world of Roman medicine. Pt. 2. Before Galen: 3. The medical woman between folk tradition and philosophy 4. Sects and the medical woman. Pt. 3. Galen: 5. Women, power and knowledge in the world of Galen's works 6. Galen's woman. Conclusion: medicine and the making of Roman women. Appendix 1: Listing of medical authors, works, editions, translations and their abbreviaitons. Appendix 2: Medicae and Iatrinai in inscriptions. Bibliography. Glossary. Index locorum. General index
