Male and female bodies according to Ancient Greek physicians
This article which surveys the medical literature from the Presocratics to Galen, shows how Greek biological and medical texts constructed a particular conception of male and female bodies. According to Ancient Greek biologists and physicians, the differentiation begins at embryogenesis and continue...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:cliowgh_339 https://doi.org/10.4000/cliowgh.339 urn:doi:10.4000/cliowgh.339 en https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh/339 2017-04-20T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/e3rl All rights reserved Male and female bodies according to Ancient Greek physicians Clio Belin info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2554-3822 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh Bonnard, Jean-Baptiste body ancient Greek medicine gender Presocratics Hippocrates Erasistratus Herophilus Soranus Galen This article which surveys the medical literature from the Presocratics to Galen, shows how Greek biological and medical texts constructed a particular conception of male and female bodies. According to Ancient Greek biologists and physicians, the differentiation begins at embryogenesis and continues during foetal development. In a medical thought dominated by physiology, male and female bodies were assumed to be in obvious opposition, according to certain suggestive criteria : in particular the female body was seen as wetter and cooler than the male body and moreover marked by an anatomical peculiarity: the uterus was thought of as a living being. The difference between male and female bodies, whether described as radical (difference in nature) or relative (greater or lesser degree of perfection), is always presented in these texts by reference to the male body, compared with which the female body is thought of in terms of incompleteness or inversion. Such difference also carries connotations of hierarchy. |
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This article which surveys the medical literature from the Presocratics to Galen, shows how Greek biological and medical texts constructed a particular conception of male and female bodies. According to Ancient Greek biologists and physicians, the differentiation begins at embryogenesis and continues during foetal development. In a medical thought dominated by physiology, male and female bodies were assumed to be in obvious opposition, according to certain suggestive criteria : in particular the female body was seen as wetter and cooler than the male body and moreover marked by an anatomical peculiarity: the uterus was thought of as a living being. The difference between male and female bodies, whether described as radical (difference in nature) or relative (greater or lesser degree of perfection), is always presented in these texts by reference to the male body, compared with which the female body is thought of in terms of incompleteness or inversion. Such difference also carries connotations of hierarchy. |
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Bonnard, Jean-Baptiste |
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Bonnard, Jean-Baptiste |
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Bonnard, Jean-Baptiste |
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Male and female bodies according to Ancient Greek physicians |
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Male and female bodies according to Ancient Greek physicians |
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Male and female bodies according to Ancient Greek physicians |
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Male and female bodies according to Ancient Greek physicians |
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