| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Ancient society and history |
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Ancient society and history.
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| 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 Grid -- 8. Women and Children: Issues of Control -- Appendix A: Cases in the Epidemics -- Appendix B: Cases Involving Pregnancy in the Epidemics -- Hippocratic Index Locorum |
| Summary |
Why did Greek society foster social conditions, especially early marriage with its attendant early childbearing, that were known to be dangerous for both mother and child? What were the actual causes of death among women described as dying of childbirth in the Hippocratic Epidemics? Why did families choose to portray labor scenes on tombstones when the Greek commemorative tradition otherwise avoided reference to suffering and illness? In Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece, Nancy Demand offers the first comprehensive exploration of the social and cultural construction of childbirth in ancient Greece. 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, she relies primarily on the case histories in the Epidemics concerning women with complications in pregnancy, abortion, and childbirth. She also draws relevant details from cure records and dedications from healing sanctuaries, labor scenes depicted on tombstones, Aristophanic comedy, and Platonic philosophy |
| Analysis |
Women History |
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Greece |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-267) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Greece -- History
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Women -- Greece -- Social conditions
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Pregnancy -- Greece -- History
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Childbirth -- Greece -- History
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Feminist theory.
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
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Gynecology -- history
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Greek World -- history
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History, Ancient
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Women's Health
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Women -- Health and hygiene
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Childbirth
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Civilization
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Feminist theory
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Pregnancy
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Women
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Women -- Social conditions
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Griekse oudheid.
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Geboorte.
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Dood.
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Moederschap.
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057040
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Greece |
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
93039828 |
| ISBN |
0801847621 |
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9780801847622 |
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