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Medicine and the making of Roman women : gender, nature, and authority from Celsus to Galen
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ISBN: 0199240027 Year: 2000 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

Medicine and the making of Roman women : gender, nature, and authority from Celsus to Galen
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ISBN: 9780199240029 Year: 2000 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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Wrong kind of gonorrhea in antiquity
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,

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Studying the relationship between disease and fertility in antiquity is challenging. The first difficulty is establishing the presence, and then prevalence, of any particular condition before an assessment can be made of its demographic impact. In the case of what are now called sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the empirical obstacles to identifying such infections in the classical world are exacerbated by the moralizing that attends discussions of sexual practice and that has so strongly characterized the ways sexual behavior and pathology have been, and continue to be, conceptually conjoined. Julius Rosenbaum's influential and exhaustive nineteenth-century exploration of the ancient history of syphilis (broadly construed), for example, is based on the assumption that venereal diseases are caused by the "abuse" of the genital organs for nonprocreative purposes. Their history is, therefore, the history of human "lasciviousness and debauchery," and there was so much of that in classical Greece and Rome that syphilis and all kinds of genital afflictions necessarily followed.

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Medicine --- History.


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Wrong kind of gonorrhea in antiquity
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,

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Studying the relationship between disease and fertility in antiquity is challenging. The first difficulty is establishing the presence, and then prevalence, of any particular condition before an assessment can be made of its demographic impact. In the case of what are now called sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the empirical obstacles to identifying such infections in the classical world are exacerbated by the moralizing that attends discussions of sexual practice and that has so strongly characterized the ways sexual behavior and pathology have been, and continue to be, conceptually conjoined. Julius Rosenbaum's influential and exhaustive nineteenth-century exploration of the ancient history of syphilis (broadly construed), for example, is based on the assumption that venereal diseases are caused by the "abuse" of the genital organs for nonprocreative purposes. Their history is, therefore, the history of human "lasciviousness and debauchery," and there was so much of that in classical Greece and Rome that syphilis and all kinds of genital afflictions necessarily followed.

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Medicine --- History.


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Reproduction : antiquity to the present day
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ISBN: 9781107068025 1107068029 9781107705647 9781107658370 1107658373 1108626084 1108599419 1107705649 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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From contraception to cloning and pregnancy to populations, reproduction presents urgent challenges today. This field-defining history synthesizes a vast amount of scholarship to take the long view. Spanning from antiquity to the present day, the book focuses on the Mediterranean, western Europe, North America and their empires. It combines history of science, technology and medicine with social, cultural and demographic accounts. Ranging from the most intimate experiences to planetary policy, it tells new stories and revises received ideas. An international team of scholars asks how modern 'reproduction' - an abstract process of perpetuating living organisms - replaced the old 'generation' - the active making of humans and beasts, plants and even minerals. Striking illustrations invite readers to explore artefacts, from an ancient Egyptian fertility figurine to the announcement of the first test-tube baby. Authoritative and accessible, Reproduction offers students and non-specialists an essential starting point and sets fresh agendas for research.

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Reproductive Health --- Reproduction --- History of Medicine --- Medicine, History --- Medicine --- Human Reproductive Index --- Human Reproductive Indexes --- Reproductive Period --- Human Reproductive Indices --- Index, Human Reproductive --- Indexes, Human Reproductive --- Indices, Human Reproductive --- Period, Reproductive --- Periods, Reproductive --- Reproductive Index, Human --- Reproductive Indices, Human --- Reproductive Periods --- history --- History Medicines --- Medicine Histories --- Medicines, History --- Human reproduction --- History --- Fortpflanzung. --- History of Medicine. --- Human reproduction. --- Kultur. --- Reproduction. --- History. --- Reproductive health --- Plants --- Fertility. --- Fertilization (Biology) --- Embryology. --- Social aspects. --- Reproduction humaine. --- Santé de la reproduction --- Plantes --- Fertilité --- Fécondation. --- Embryologie. --- Aspect social. --- --Contraception --- --Santé de la reproduction --- --Histoire de la médecine --- --history --- Fertilité humaine. --- Reproduction (biologie) --- Reproduction végétale. --- Reproductive Health - history --- Human reproduction - History --- Reproduction - History --- Contraception --- Histoire de la médecine --- Gynecology --- Gynaecology --- Generative organs, Female --- Diseases --- Fertility, Human --- Demographic transition. --- Reproduction humaine --- Fécondité humaine --- Fertilité humaine --- Transition démographique --- Sciences --- Médecine --- Histoire. --- Histoire --- Méditerranée (région) --- Europe de l'Ouest --- Amérique du Nord. --- Santé de la reproduction --- Reproduction végétale. --- Fertilité humaine. --- Fécondation.


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Medicine and markets in the Graeco-Roman world and beyond : essays on ancient medicine in honour of Vivian Nutton
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ISBN: 191058990X 9781910589908 9781910589786 1910589780 Year: 2020 Publisher: Swansea : The Classical Press of Wales,

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"For almost half a century, Vivian Nutton has been a leading figure in the study of ancient (and less ancient) medicine. The field itself has been revolutionised over that time. In this volume distinguished colleagues and former students develop, in his honour, key themes of his ground-breaking scholarship. Spanning from the Bronze Age to the Digital Age, involving the cult of Artemis and the corpuscular theories of Asclepiades of Bithynia, the medicinal uses of beavers and the cost of health-care and wet-nursing, case-histories, remedy exchange and the medical repercussions of political assassination, this book has at its centre the pluralism and diversity of the ancient medical marketplace. The lively interplay between choice and competition, unity and division, communication and debate, so notable in Vivian Nutton's foundational vision of the world of classical medicine, is richly examined across these pages." --


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Reproduction : antiquity to the present day
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ISBN: 9781107705647 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Bodily fluids in antiquity
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ISBN: 9781138343726 1138343722 9780367764067 0367764067 9780429438974 9780429798597 9780429798603 0429438974 0429798598 0429798601 9780429798580 042979858X Year: 2021 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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"From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily fluids influenced ideas about gender, sexuality, politics, emotions, and morality, and how those ideas shaped later European thought. Comprising 25 chapters across seven key themes - language, gender, eroticism, nutrition, dissolution, death, and afterlife - this volume investigates bodily fluids in the context of the current sensory turn. It asks fundamental questions about physicality and fluidity: how were bodily fluids categorised and differentiated? How were fluids trapped inside the body perceived, and how did this perception alter when those fluids were externalised? Do ancient approaches complement or challenge our modern sensibilities about bodily fluids? How were religious practices influenced by attitudes towards bodily fluids, and how did religious authorities attempt to regulate or restrict their appearance? Why were some fluids taboo, and others cherished? In what ways were bodily fluids gendered? Offering a range of scholarly approaches and voices, this volume explores how ideas about the body and the fluids it contained and externalised are culturally conditioned and ideologically determined. The analysis encompasses the key geographic centres of the ancient Mediterranean basin, including Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and Egypt. By taking a longue durée perspective across a richly intertwined set of territories, this collection is the first to provide a comprehensive, wide-ranging study of bodily fluids in the ancient world. Bodily Fluids in Antiquity will be of particular interest to academic readers working in the fields of classics and its reception, archaeology, anthropology, and ancient to early modern history. It will also appeal to more general readers with an interest in the history of the body and history of medicine"--

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