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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Volume 58, Number 1, January 2003

E-ISSN: 1468-4373 Print ISSN: 0022-5045

Kosak, Jennifer Clarke.
Medicine and the Making of Roman Women: Gender, Nature and Authority from Celsus to Galen (review)
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences - Volume 58, Number 1, January 2003, pp. 87-88

Oxford University Press

Jennifer Clarke Kosak - Medicine and the Making of Roman Women: Gender, Nature and Authority from Celsus to Galen (review) - Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 58:1 Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 58.1 (2003) 87-88 Rebecca Flemming. Medicine and the Making of Roman Women: Gender, Nature and Authority from Celsus to Galen. New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. xii, 453 pp. $95. This book provides a sophisticated analysis of medical approaches to women during the Roman imperial period. It begins with an attempt to situate medical practitioners, both male and female, in the context of Roman social practices and attitudes toward women, and then provides a discussion of the conceptual framework of...


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