Article ID: CBB033484613

Predicting and Choosing Baby's Gender in the Hippocratic Corpus (2017)

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Many various Hippocratic treatises, as "Epidemics," "Aphorisms," "Barren Women," "Superfetation," and "Generation," deal with baby’s gender. According to them, there are a few ways to know if a pregnant woman is waiting for a boy or a girl. It is even possible to decide having a boy or a girl by giving drugs to woman or controlling man’s body. Those predictions and technics rely upon opposite theories about generation (like the ones of "Generation" and "Regimen") and enable us to explain how, in the Hippocratic Corpus, the particularities of female and male body take part in genetics.

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Authors & Contributors
Jouanna, Jacques
Ecca, Giulia
Roselli, Amneris
Overwien, Oliver
Di Piazza, Salvatore
Iorio, Silvia
Journals
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Technai, An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology
Galenos: Rivista di Filologia dei Testi Medici Antichi
Medicina Historica
Würzburger Medizinhistorische Mitteilungen
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Publishers
Walter de Gruyter
Harrassowitz
Editrice Bibliografica
Brill
Concepts
Medicine
Hippocratic medicine
Ecdotics; source study (methodology)
Linguistics; philology
Gynecology
Manuscripts
People
Hippocrates of Cos
Galen
Erotianus
Time Periods
Ancient
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Middle and Near East
Italy
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