CLA232H1 Lecture 10: Lecture 10.docx
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Lecture 10 greeks and barbarians (hippocrates airs, waters, places) Alterity b/w the greek self and the other barbarian. Understanding of the other shapes the persian wars (shapes the way herotodus tells history) Today we are going to look at greek vs barbarian but through the view of medicine. Medicine = useful lens to look at a society because even though it aims to be objective but it always has its prejudices of its societies. Greek medicine tried to explain barbarians via science (but their explanations just reflected their prejudices) Hippocrates wrote air, waters, places -> 5th century b. c. Father of greek medicine; was one of the first doctors of western world. Because medicine is apart of our culture today, its hard to imagine there being a time when it didn t really exist. Medicine was still a sub-category of religion during this time. If you got sick -> sent to the oracle to see which god you had angered.
