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Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece
Hippocrates' Woman Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece
Author: Helen King
Gynecology in ancient Greece originated in the myth of the first woman Pandora, whose beautiful appearance was seen to cover her dangerous insides. This book explores how Greek healers understood the interior workings of the female body, and how gynecology was based on ideas about women and their bodies found in myth and ritual. Helen King also ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780415138956
ISBN-10: 0415138957
Publication Date: 11/10/1998
Pages: 344
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Paperback
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