Ancient Medicine and Gynecology

  • M. Adair, “Plato’s View of the ‘Wandering Uterus’,” Classical Journal 91.2 (1995) 153-64
  • Amundsen, Darrel W., Medicine, Society, and Faith in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1996) / web link
  • Jan Blayney, “Theories of Conception in the Ancient Roman World,” in The Family in Ancient Rome: new perspectives edited by B. Rawson: Routledge (1986, 1992)
  • Bliquez, L.J., “Gynecology in Pompeii,” in Ancient medicine in its socio-cultural context. Papers read at the congress held at Leiden university 13-15 april 1992 edited by Ph.J. van der Eijk, H.F.J. Horstmannshoff and P.H. Schrijvers I-II, Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. Clio medica. The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine. (1995) 209-223
  • Keith R. Bradley, “Wet-nursing at Rome: a Study in Social Relations,” in The Family in Ancient Rome: new perspectives edited by B. Rawson: Routledge (1986, 1992)
  • Marie-Hélène Congourdeau, “Mètrodôra” et son oeuvre,” in Maladie et société à Byzance edited by Evelyne Patlagean: Centro di studi sull alto Medioevo de Spolète (1994) 57-96
  • Marie-Hélène Congourdeau, “A propos d’un chapitre des Ephodia : l’avortement chez les médecins grecs,” Revue des Etudes Byzantines 55 (1997) 260-278
  • V. Dasen, “Multiple Births in Graeco-Roman Antiquity,” OJA 16.1 (1997) 49-63
  • L. Dean-Jones, “The Cultural Construct of the Female Body in Classical Greek Science,” in Women’s History and Ancient History edited by S. Pomeroy, Chapel Hill, NC (1991) 111-137
  • L. Dean-Jones, “The Politics of Pleasure: Female Sexual Appetite in the Hippocratic Corpus,” Helios 19 (1992) 72-91
  • L. Dean-Jones, Women’s Bodies in Classical Greek Science (1993) / bmcr
  • Dean-Jones, Lesley, “Menstrual Bleeding According to the Hippocratics and Aristotle,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 119 (1989) 177ff. / full text
  • Demand, N., “Monuments, midwives and gynecology,” in Ancient medicine in its socio-cultural context. Papers read at the congress held at Leiden university 13-15 april 1992 edited by Ph.J. van der Eijk, H.F.J. Horstmannshoff and P.H. Schrijvers I-II, Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. Clio medica. The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine. (1995) 275-290
  • N. Demand, Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece, Baltimore (1994) / bmcr
  • D. W. Amundsen & C. J. Diers, “The Age of Menopause in Classical Greece and Rome,” Human Biology 42 (1970) 79-86
  • Edwards, Martha L., “Women and Physical Disability in Ancient Greece,” AncW 29.1 (1998) 3-9
  • T. H. Ellinger, Hippocrates on Intercourse and Pregnancy (1952)
  • Engels, Donald, “The Problem of Female Infanticide in the Greco-Roman World,” Classical Philology 75 (1980) 112-120 / full text
  • Flemming, Rebecca, Medicine and the Making of Roman Women. Gender, Nature and Authority from Celsus to Galen, New York: Oxford University Press (2000)
  • V. French, “Midwives and Maternity Care in the Greco-Roman World,” Helios 13 (1987) 69-84
  • B. W. Frier, “Natural Fertility and Family Limitation in Roman Marriage,” Classical Philology 89 (1994) 318-333 / full text
  • R. Garland, The Greek Way of Life (1990) / bmcr
  • D. Gourevitch, “Women who suffer from a man’s Disease: the Example of Satyriasis and the debate on Affections specific to the Sexes,” in Women in Antiquity: New Assessments edited by R. Hawley and B. Levick: Routledge (1995) 149-165
  • A. E. Hanson, “The Eight Months’ Child and the Etiquette of Birth: Obsit Omen!,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 61 (1987) 589-602
  • A. E. Hanson, “The Medical Writers’ Woman,” in Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient World edited by D. M. Halperin, J. J. Winkler and F. I. Zeitlin, Princeton (1990) 309-337
  • A. E. Hanson, “Continuity and Change: Three Case Studies in Hippocratic Gynecological Therapy and Theory,” in Women’s History and Ancient History edited by S. Pomeroy, Chapel Hill, NC (1991) 73-110
  • A. E. Hanson, “The Logic of Gynecological Prescriptions,” in Tradatos Hipocraticos: Actas del VIIe Colloque internationale hippocratique 1990 edited by J. A. Lopez Ferez, Madrid (1991) 235-250
  • A. E. Hanson, “Conception, Gestation, and the Origin of Female Nature in the Corpus Hippocraticum,” Helios 19 (1992) 31-71
  • Hanson, A.E., “Paidopiia: metaphors for conception, abortion, and gestation in the Hippocratic corpus,” in Ancient medicine in its socio-cultural context. Papers read at the congress held at Leiden university 13-15 april 1992 edited by Ph.J. van der Eijk, H.F.J. Horstmannshoff and P.H. Schrijvers I-II, Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. Clio medica. The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine (1995) 291-307
  • Hanson, A.E., “A division of labor. Roles for men in Greek and Roman births,” Thamyris. Mythmaking from past to present 1,2, Amsterdam (1994) 157-202
  • M. C. Horowitz, “Aristotle and Women,” Journal of the History of Biology 9 (1966) 183-213
  • G. L. Irby-Massie, “Women in Ancient Science,” in Woman’s Power, Man’s Game. Essays on Classical Antiquity in Honor of Joy King edited by M. DeForest (1993)
  • Konstantinos Kapparis, Abortion in the Ancient World  , London: Duckworth (2002) [ ISBN 0-7156-3080-6] / bmcr
  • Kember, Owen, “Right and Left in the Sexual Theories of Parmenides,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 91 (1971) 70-79 / full text
  • H. King, “Agnodike and the Profession of Medicine,” PCPhS 212 N.S. 32 (1986 53ff.)
  • H. King, “Sacrificial Blood: the Role of Amnion in Ancient Gynecology,” Helios 13 (1987) 117-126
  • H. King, “La femme dans la médicine grecque,” La recherche 209 (1989) 462-469
  • H. King, “The Daughter of Leonides: Reading the Hippocratic Corpus,” in History as Text edited by A. Cameron, Chapel Hill, NC (1989) 11-34
  • H. King, “Using the Past: Nursing and the Medical Profession in Ancient Greece,” in Anthropology and Nursing edited by P. Holden and J. Littlewood, London and New York (1991) 7-24
  • H. King, “Bound to Bleed: Artemis and Greek Women,” in Images of Women in Antiquity edited by A. Cameron and A. Kuhrt, London (1993) 109-127
  • H. King, “Once Upon a Text: Hysteria from Hippocrates,” in Hysteria Beyond Freud edited by S. L. Gilman, H. King, R. Porter, G. S. Rousseau and E. Showalter, Berkeley and London (1993) 3-90
  • H. King, “Medical Texts as a Source for Women’s History,” in The Greek World edited by A. Powell, London and New York (1995)
  • H. King, “Self-help, Self-knowledge: In Search of the Patient in Hippocratic Gynaecology,” in Women in Antiquity: New Assessments edited by R. Hawley and B. Levick: Routledge (1995)
  • H. King, “Hippocrates, Galen, and the Origins of the ‘Disease of Virgins’,” IJCT 2.3 (1996) 372-387
  • Helen King, Hippocrates’ Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece : Routledge (1998) / bmcr
  • H. Laale, “Abortion in Greek Antiquity: Solon to Aristotle (I),” Classical and Modern Literature 13.2 (1993) 157-166
  • H. Laale, “Abortion in Greek Antiquity: Solon to Aristotle (II),” Classical and Modern Literature 13.3 (1993) 191-201
  • L. Lange, “Woman is not a Rational Animal: on Aristotle’s Biology of Reproduction,” in Discovering Reality edited by S. Harding and M. Hintikka (1983) 1-15
  • M. R. Lefkowitz, “The Wandering Womb,” in Heroines and Hysterics (1981) 12-25
  • Lloyd, G. E. R., “Parmenides’ Sexual Theories. A Reply to Mr Kember,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 92 (1972) 178-179 / full text
  • G. E. R. Lloyd, “The Female Sex: Medical Treatment and Biological Theories in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.,” in Science, Folklore, and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece edited by G. E. R. Lloyd, Cambridge (1983) 86-94
  • J. S. Murray, “The alleged prohibition of abortion in the Hippocratic Oath,” Classical Views/Echos du Monde Classique 35 (1991) 293-311
  • H.N. Parker, “Greek embryological calendars and a fragment from the lost work of Damastes, On the Care of Pregnant Women and of Infants,” Classical Quarterly 49 no. 2 (1999) 515-534
  • Holt Parker, “Women Physicians in Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire,” in Women Physicians and Healers: Climbing a Long Hill edited by Lilian R. Furst, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky (1997) 131-50
  • R. Parker, Miasma (1983)
  • Lee Pearcy, Ancient Medicine / Medicina Antiqua / web link
  • Brule Pierre, “Infanticide et abandon d’enfants. Pratiques grecques et comparaisons anthropologiques,” DHA 18.2 (1992) 53-90
  • J. R. Pinault, “The Medical Case for Virginity in the Early Second Century C.E.: Soranus of Ephesus, Gynecology 1.32,” Helios 19 (1992) 123-139
  • J. R. Pinault, “Women, Fat, and Fertility: Hippocratic Theorizing and Treatment,” in Woman’s Power, Man’s Game. Essays on Classical Antiquity in Honor of Joy King edited by M. DeForest (1993)
  • J. M. Riddle, “Oral Contraceptives and Early Term Abortifacients during Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages,” Past and Present 132 (1991) 3-32
  • J. M. Riddle, Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance (1992) / bmcr
  • J. M. Riddle, Eve’s Herbs : A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (1997) [1. A Woman’s Secret; 2. The Herbs Known to the Ancients; 3. Ancient and Medieval Beliefs; 4. From Womancraft to Witchcraft, 1200-1500; 5. Witches and Apothecaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; 6. The Broken Chain of Knowledge; 7. The Womb as Public Territory; 8. Eve’s Herbs in Modern America] / web link
  • A. Rouselle, “Observation féminine et idéologie masculine: Le corps de la femme d’après les médicins grecs,” Annales (ESC) 35 (1980) 1089-1115
  • S. Saïd, Féminin, femme et femelle dans les grands traités biologiques d’Aristote edited by Ed. Lévy, La femme dans les sociétés anciennes, Strasbourg (1983) 93-123
  • J. Scarborough, “Sexual Anatomy: The ‘Parts (Female)’,” in Medical Terminologies: Classical Origins edited by J. Scarborough, Norman, Oklahoma (1992)
  • Scarborough, John, “The pharmacy of methodist medicine: The evidence of Soranus’ Gynecology,” in Les écoles médicales à Rome. Actes du 2ème Colloque international sur les textes médicaux latins antiques, Lausanne, septembre 1986 edited by Philippe Mudry and Jacki Pigeaud, Genève: Droz. (Littérature, médecine, société. Université de Lausanne. Publ. de la Fac. des lettres. 33 (1991) 203-216
  • Sissa, Giulia, Greek Virginity, Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP (1990)
  • J. Solomon, “The Wandering Womb of Delos,” in Woman’s Power, Man’s Game. Essays on Classical Antiquity in Honor of Joy King edited by M. DeForest (1993) 91-108
  • H. von Staden, “Women and Dirt,” Helios 19 (1992) 7-30
  • H. von Staden, “The Discovery of the Body: Human Dissection and its Cultural Contexts in Ancient Greece,” Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 65.3 (1992) 223-241
  • O. Temkin, Soranus’ Gynecology (1991) / bmcr
  • Maria Wyke, Parchments of gender: deciphering the bodies of antiquity, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1998) [Introduction Maria Wyke; 1. Ithyphallic Males Behaving Badly; or, Satyr Drama as Gendered Tragic Ending Edith Hall; 2. `The Mother of the Argument’: Eros and the Body in Sappho and Plato’s Phaedrus Helene P. Foley; 3. Talking Recipes in the Gynaecological Texts of the Hippocratic Corpus Ann Ellis Hanson; 4. Controlling Daughters’ Bodies in Sirach Jon L. Berquist; 5. Austerity, Excess, Success, and Failure in Hellenistic and Early Imperial Italy Emma Dench; 6. Poisonous Women and Unnatural History in Roman Culture Sarah Currie; 7. Discovering the Body in Roman Oratory Erik Gunderson; 8. The Emperor’s New Body: Ascension from Rome Mary Beard John Henderson; 9. `Ordering the House’: On the Domestication of Jewish Bodies Cynthia M. Baker; 10. Playing Roman Soldiers: The Martyred Body, Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane, and the Representation of Male Homosexuality Maria Wyke; 11. Sowing the Seeds of Violence: Rape, Women, and the Land Carol Dougherty ] / web link
  • Maria Wyke, The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations., Oxford: Oxford University Press (2002) [1. Part 1. Love Poetry Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy; 2. Written Women: Propertius’ scripta puella (2. 10-13); 3. The Elegiac Woman at Rome: Propertius Book 4; 4. Reading Female Flesh: Ovid Amores 3. 1; 5. Part 2. Reception Taking the Woman’s Part: Gender and Scholarship on Love Elegy; 6. Meretrix regina: Augustan Cleopatras; 7. Oriental Vamp; Cleopatra 1910s; 8. Glamour Girl: Cleopatra 1930s – 1960s; 9. Meretrix Augusta: Messalina 1870s – 1920s; 10. Suburban Feminist: Messalina 1930s – 1970s] / bmcr