Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece

Rating:
Summary: well researched but a chore to read
Review: Helen King presents us with a vast array of evidence about women and medicine and the use of the body in the ancient Greek world. However, she moves beyond the title of her piece and that is when the book loses focus and becomes difficult to follow. This is not a book for the layperson regardless of this, it requires a basic understanding of at least ancient Greek society and better yet some medical or gender studies background.

Rating:
Summary: well researched but a chore to read
Review: Helen King presents us with a vast array of evidence about women and medicine and the use of the body in the ancient Greek world. However, she moves beyond the title of her piece and that is when the book loses focus and becomes difficult to follow. This is not a book for the layperson regardless of this, it requires a basic understanding of at least ancient Greek society and better yet some medical or gender studies background.