CLA232H1 Lecture : lecture notes
Document Summary
March 1, 2010: medicine indication of alterity, hippocrates tries to find nature of difference between greeks/barbarians. Cultural prejudice derails him i. e. making asia an exception re: balance. Works attrib to hippocrates really range of 5th cent authors. Aristotle: 4th cent; galen: 2nd cent ad (roman times) Notes of a travelling doctor sometimes doctors examine, sometimes intermediaries examine. Ancient hippocratic oath do not abuse position regardless; keep secrets; harm no one. Soranus 1ad training manual for midwives. Sappho: talks about apple on a tree, also has self as passive material. Medea: jason if only men could procreate by themselves. Theogony: gaia first produces by herself but later is prevented by males. Zeus by himself: athena (strong); hera by herself: hephaestus (crippled) Wad: women constantly draining man"s jars/seed; danaids always filling jars uselessly confusion! Pliny says: menstrual blood fatal to men; can kill pests with it: women always threatened by imbalance of body vision, womb troubles because of moisture/blockages.
