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Darrera modificació: 2022-02-02
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Caballero Navas, Carmen, "The genesis of medieval Hebrew gynaecology: A preliminary assessment", dins: Lehmhaus, Lennart (ed.), Defining Jewish Medicine: Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Jewish Cultures and Traditions, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2021, pp. 349-373.
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- This paper is a preliminary account of the progress of my work on the early stages of the reception and accommodation in Hebrew of literature and theories on female anatomy, physiology, and disease by medieval Jewish authors and translators. While the first steps of my research on the medieval Hebrew corpus of literature devoted to the care of women's health led me to specifically address the textual production and transmission of the later Middle Ages, in the course of my enquiry I have become progressively, and inevitably, interested in the beginning of these processes, and in the factors that prompted the production and dissemination of this type of literature. The first focus of my study is the texts themselves. Hence, I have endeavoured to compile and describe a preliminary inventory, in which I have included treatises that circulated independently, as well as some sections on women's conditions within medical encyclopaedias that had a strong bearing on the formation of the Latin tradition of gynaecological literature and were instrumental in the formation of the Hebrew gynaecological corpus. I have paid attention to textual choices, as well as to contexts of production and dissemination and to models of appropriation. I have also briefly explored the circulation of the earliest texts up to the end of the period, in order to catch a glimpse, albeit small, of the gynaecological literature available to learned Jews at the time. To that end, I have relied on the sources and quotations in the section on women's ailments in Sēfer hayōšer, a medical encyclopaedia written in Provence around the fourth quarter of the thirteenth century. I hope to pursue the analysis of the sources and citations in other treatises and books, as well as the manu-script distribution of the inventory of texts presented here, in future work. Finally, I have enquired into the rationale(s) behind the foundation of the gynaecological He-brew corpus. The end of this chapter contains an appendix with a preliminary list of the gynaecological Hebrew texts produced during the period studied.
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Medicina - Ginecologia, obstetrícia i cosmètica
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- https://www.academia.edu/52795341/The_Genesis_of_Me ...
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