Birth, death, and motherhood in Classical Greece / Nancy Demand.
Birth, death, and motherhood in Classical Greece / Nancy Demand.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994.
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N305.409495/1
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English
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xx, 276 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. The Lives of Greek Women -- 2. Hippocratic Medicine and the Epidemics -- 3. The Treatment of Female Patients in the Epidemics -- 4. The Risks of Childbirth -- 5. Appeal to the Gods -- 6. Acculturation to Early Childbearing -- 7. The Attitudes of the Polis to Childbirth: Putting Women into the Gri...
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994.
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Maryland
Date Published
c1994.
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Reading the ancient evidence in light of feminist theory, the Foucauldian notion of discursively constituted objects, medical anthropology, and anthropological studies of the modern Greek village, Demand discusses topics that include midwifery, abortion, attitudes of doctors toward women patients, and the treatment of women generally. For evidence,...
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Birth, death, and motherhood in Classical Greece / Nancy Demand.
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Ancient society and history.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-267) and indexes.
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c1994.
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N305.409495/1
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74VKOag33RVA
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0801847621 (hc : acid-free paper)
9780801847622 (hc : acid-free paper)
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305.409495
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991022506789702626
