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Hippocrates' woman : reading the female body in ancient Greece / Helen King.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Helen, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gynecology--Greece--History.
- Gynecology.
- Medicine, Greek and Roman.
- Gynecology--Greek influences.
- Women--Greece--History.
- Women.
- Human body--Social aspects--Greece--History.
- Human body.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 322 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-310) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-77220-3
- 1-134-77221-1
- 1-280-33216-6
- 9786610332168
- 0-203-02599-7
- 0-203-15964-0
- 9780203025994
- OCLC:
- 57070178
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