Medicine and the Making of Roman Women - Gender, Nature, and Authority From Celsus to Galen

Zusatztext In spite of the increased interest in both ancient medical science and the history of women, Rebecca Flemming's book covers a still quite neglected field by combining both of them. Klappentext Dr Flemming has written a book about women and medicine in the first centuries of the Roman Empire, an important but neglected period. It is about female medical practitioners and patients in the Roman world, what male doctors wrote about women, how they understood them, and the wider effects their ideas and writings had upon women's lives. Zusammenfassung Dr Flemming has written a book about women and medicine in the first centuries of the Roman Empire, an important but neglected period. It is about female medical practitioners and patients in the Roman world, what male doctors wrote about women, how they understood them, and the wider effects their ideas and writings had upon women's lives.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Flemming, Rebecca (Lecturer in Ancient History Flemming, Flemming Rebecca
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9780199240029
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924002-9
• No. of pages: 466
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Europe / General, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Women, History of Medicine, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Gender studies: women, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Gender studies: women and girls