CLA232H1 Lecture Notes - Scrotum, Hippocratic Oath, Female Hysteria
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We saw in airs, waters, places that hippocrates was trying to find natural, physical and environmental sources for the differences between greeks and. What we see is that even as hippocrates, galen and aristotle are trying to understand sex, gender is always creeping in. What we find is that sex may always already be gender meaning underneath the anatomical differences, those differences may not be explicable without a set of gender presuppositions. All of the writers insist that women produce seed, that they are colder, that the uterus moves around. These texts come from a range of authors & periods. Galen 2nd c c. e under the roman empire. You can trace the evolution from hippocrates to aristotle to galen. What"s most remarkable is the similarities and how little approaches to gender changes in 6-7 centuries. Up until the 19th century the idea of the wandering womb as causing female hysteria was still accepted.