Medicine and the Making of Roman Women
Subtitle: Gender, Nature, and Authority from Celsus to Galen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780199240029
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History of medicine; Women's studies; Literary Criticism; History - General History; Hellenic languages; Ancient Rome; History; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Ancient - Rome; Ancient and Classical; Gender identity; Medicine, Greek and Roman; Rome; Women in medicine; Women patients
First sentence: MEDICINE has now become an accepted, even favoured, area of enquiry for those interested in the history of women, and in past interpretations and organizations of sexual difference more broadly.