Seeing the bigger picture: what is gynaecology for?

Seeing the bigger picture: what is gynaecology for?

This paper situates Rodrigo de Castro Lusitano’s De uniuersa mulierum medicina (1603), within the longer history of gynaecology and of the questions raised by having a separate branch of medicine dedicated to women. I argue that the focus of ‘gynaecology’ has historically been on difference: on wom...

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Main Author:	Helen King
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universidade de Aveiro 2021-06-01
Series:	Ágora
Subjects:	difference Hippocratic binary hermapfrodite language gynaecology
Online Access:	https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/agora/article/view/25018

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