Woman as an object of medical knowledge in the Roman Empire, from Celsus to Galen
This thesis investigates the constructions of woman as an object of medical knowledge in the Roman imperial world over a period of some two centuries, extending from Celsus, writing during the reign of Tiberius, to Galen, whose career ended under the Severans, and including all the medical texts which survive from the intervening years. It is an investigation into the processes and matrices of that construction, as well as the substance of the medical woman thus constituted; an investigation of the form and modality of Roman medical thinking about woman as much as its contents. The first part is an introduction to the historically specific social, cultural and discursive formation of Roman imperial medicine, thus providing the framework within which the position and positivity of the medical woman as she emerges from the range of individual medical works that are then analysed in detail must be understood. The second part deals with that section of the extant medical literature of this period which precedes Galen; a literature which can be divided according to whether it stands inside or outside the sectarian traditions of the logikoi, empirikoi and methodikoi. Inside are the more theoretically elaborated
Flemming, Rebecca Elizabeth
Ancient medicine
Woman as an object of medical knowledge in the Roman Empire, from Celsus to Galen. This thesis investigates the constructions of woman as an object of medical knowledge in the Roman imperial world over a period of some two centuries, extending from Celsus, writing during the reign of Tiberius, to Galen, whose career ended under the Severans, and including all the medical texts which survive from the intervening years. It is an investigation into the processes and matrices of that construction, as well as the substance of the medical woman thus constituted; an investigation of the form and modality of Roman medical thinking about woman as much as its contents. The first part is an introduction to the historically specific social, cultural and discursive formation of Roman imperial medicine, thus providing the framework within which the position and positivity of the medical woman as she emerges from the range of individual medical works that are then analysed in detail must be understood. The second part deals with that section of the extant medical literature of this period which precedes Galen; a literature which can be divided according to whether it stands inside or outside the sectarian traditions of the logikoi, empirikoi and methodikoi. Inside are the more theoretically elaborated
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