Hippocrates' woman
Subtitle: reading the female body in ancient Greece
By: Helen King.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Gynecology -- Greece -- History; Medicine, Greek and Roman; Gynecology -- Greek influences; Women -- Greece -- History; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- Greece -- History
Description: This text is a 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-310) and index.