CLA232H1 Lecture : March 5th Lecture.docx
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Hippocrates couldn"t escape his culture, no matter how objective he"s trying to be. Trying to explain difference between greeks and foreigners. Trying to ground nomos in physis: but nomos always affects his interpretation of physis. Similarity with medical texts: as trying to understand sex, gender roles (made by culture) keep creaping in, trying to find a physis that explains nomos in women. But resulting physis theory is influenced by nomos. Underlying biological differences, may not be understood without previous gender explanations. So, when they explain sex, they"re really describing gender. Hippocrates 5th cent bce, greece, but from asia minor. Aristotle 4th cent bce, wrote on everything. Galen 2nd cent bce, under roman empire. You can trace the evolution of thought down the three. But here are still many similarities between the three: wandering womb still in medical texts in the 19th century. An emotional state is connected to their reproductive organs: something wrong with women more than men.
