POL101Y1 Lecture 3: HIS245 Lecture 03.docx
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Constructing gender, scientific truth", and the practice of medicine. Porous boundaries of religion, natural philosophy, science, magic. Feminist science studies, history of science, and the real". Three themes; ideas, physical, social context: medical truths" reinforce gender power relations. How is that knowledge constructed that reinforced gender and equality: effects of medical truths" on gendered experience of the body, medical practices and the female body. The social context of how medical truths shape historically specific societies. Is it about merit: the balanced humorol economy, greek philosophical tradition. Women were a result of something gone wrong at conception: galenic medicine. Differences between male and female bodies that shaped medieval times. Females fail to live up to that standard. Men: drier, hotter, effect of heat on sexual physiology, external sexual organs. Men were seen as smarter because heat rose to the brains. Women: colder, wetter, effect of lack of heat on sexual physiology, internal sexual organs.