HPS318H1 Lecture Notes - Writing Center, Bloodletting, Main Source
20 Jan 2013
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Past is a foreign country meaning, hard to understand bc very different not transerfernt. One essential thing look at past as foreign counry very different from where we are now. Past different something that is other by bracketing things we know about the present, the otherness of past forget of the present. Past very different body very different from today body as balanced as fluids. Sex identity very different ways, today sex identity in terms of science and medicine with hormones and genetics they look at sense of temp cold and humid women hotand dry men change temp change in sex. Robert danton in 18th century case no sense of empathy with cats other people are other. capturing otherness. Beware anachromism - projecting present day knowledge onto the past rather construcuting in its own terms. Less common history of science or medicince paradigm celebrates sceine as logical development better now then in past.
