Naming the Body
Carolyn Gersh
Broschiertes Buch

Naming the Body

A Translation with Commentary and Interpretive Essays of Three Anatomical Works Attributed to Rufus of Ephesus

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Often cast in the shadow of his successor Galen, Rufus of Ephesus adds a large and wide-ranging corpus to the surviving body of ancient medical texts. His anatomical treatises, particularly his Names of the Parts of the Body, provide a window into his cultural assumptions and his self-situation in the medical and scientific community. In naming the parts of the human body, Rufus reveals that what constitutes "human" is limited to what is most like him: Greek, male, free-born, and distinct from other animal species. Women; eunuchs; slaves; and the old and young are all imperfect deviations from...