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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on texts
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Constructing the body: the inside story
2 Deceitful bodies, speaking bodies
3 The daughter of Leonidas: reading case histories
4 Blood and the goddesses
5 Asklepios and women‘s healing
6 What does medicine mean? The pain of being human
7 Reading the past through the present: drugs and contraception in Hippocratic medicine
8 Gender and the healing role
9 Imaginary midwives
10 Green sickness: Hippocrates, Galen and the origins of the ‘disease of virgins’
11 Once upon a text: hysteria from Hippocrates
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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