HIS102Y1 Lecture : Lecture 3
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Hotter - believed sexual organs were pushed outwards. -colder - believed sexual organs were pushed inwards. Differentiates this from what happens around the 1700s when the two-sex model develops, Who and what counts as a medical practitioner, who gets the authoritative voice. Social construction, very abstract, accepted truths from the society in that time. 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 . 1) medical truths reinforce gender power relations, the sexed body as constructed. 2) effects of medical truths on gendered experience of the body. 3) medical practice and the female body, the social context of how medical truths shape historically specific societies: the balanced humoral economy. 1) greek philosophical tradition, hippocrates and aristotle, plato. Men: drier, hotter, effect of heat on sexual physiology, external sexual organs. Women: colder, wetter, effect of heat on sexual physiology, internal sexual organs.
