ACLS Humanities E-Book: Birth, death, and motherhood in classical Greece

Birth, death, and motherhood in classical Greece

Demand, Nancy H.

Year: c1994.

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Preface

Acknowledgments

Historiographical Introduction

One The Lives of Greek Women

Two Hippocratic Medicine and the Epidemics

Three The Treatment of Female Patients in the Epidemics

Four The Risks of Childbirth

Five Appeal to the Gods

Six Acculturation to Early Childbearing

Seven The Attitudes of the Polis to Childbirth: Putting Women into the Grid

Eight Women and Children: Issues of Control

Plates

Appendix A: Cases in the Epidemics

Appendix B: Cases Involving Pregnancy in the Epidemics

Notes

Glossary

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Genderal Index

Hippocratic Index Locorum

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Title:

Birth, death, and motherhood in classical Greece : Nancy Demand.

Author:

Demand, Nancy H

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2008
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Birth, death, and motherhood in classical Greece : Nancy Demand.
Demand, Nancy H
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.04288

Subject Headings:

• Women -- Greece -- History
• Women -- Greece -- Social conditions
• Pregnancy -- Greece -- History
• Childbirth -- Greece -- History
• Feminist theory
• Greece -- Civilization

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