FF:RLS029 Gynaecology in Ancient World - Course Information
RLS029 Gynaecology in the Ancient World
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Jana Steklá, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Jana Steklá, Ph.D.
Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Erlebachová
Supplier department: Department of Classical Studies – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ! KR029 Gynaecology in Ancient World
Nejsou potřeba žádné speciální znalosti či vědomosti, orientace v antické historii je výhodou. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 8 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- This course aims to provide students with the possibilities of ancient medicine regarding a woman´s body in the course of her reproductive life from menarche to menopause and with the medical and philosophical knowledge of the human reproductive system.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course, the student will be familiar with Greek and Roman medicine, with the medical knowledge regarding woman´s body and with the main problems of the reproductive system which ancient people were afflicted.
- Syllabus
- 1. The topics of the lectures, ancient medicine, its influence, kinds of physicians and healers.
- 2. Rational medicine: physicians, texts, gynecological treatises.
- 3. Physicians and their she-patients: who cured women, the duties of the physician, relation of the physician with women.
- 4. Anatomy of the female reproductive system
- 5. Menstruation and sexual intercourse.
- 6. Pregnancy and birth.
- 7. Pathology during pregnancy, complications in the parturition, abortions.
- 8. Infertility.
- 9. Breastfeeding.
- 10. Contraception.
- 11. Infanticide and regulation of the childbearing.
- 12.–13. Other diseases of the reproductive system
- Literature
- recommended literature
- LAQUEUR, Thomas Walter. Rozkoš mezi pohlavími : sexuální diference od antiky po Freuda. Edited by Martin Pokorný. První české vydání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2017, 355 stran. ISBN 9788024634715. info
- HIPPOKRATÉS. Vybrané spisy. Edited by Sylva Fischerová, Translated by Hynek Bartoš. První vydání. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2012, 604 stran. ISBN 9788072983926. info
- KING, Helen. Hippocrates' woman : reading the female body in ancient Greece. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 1998, xvi, 322. ISBN 0415138949. info
- DEAN-JONES, Lesley. Women's bodies in classical Greek science. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, ix, 293. ISBN 0198150466. info
- not specified
- HIPPOKRATÉS. Vybrané spisy. Edited by Hynek Bartoš - Sylva Fischerová. První vydání. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2018, 752 stran. ISBN 9788072985067. info
- KING, Helen. The one-sex body on trial : the classical and early modern evidence. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013, xii, 274. ISBN 9781409463351. info
- HIPPOKRATÉS. Hippocrates. Translated by Paul Potter. First published. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1995, 412 stran. ISBN 9780674995314. info
- HIPPOKRATÉS. Hippocrates. Translated by Paul Potter. First published. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1988, xiv, 324. ISBN 9780674995222. info
- HIPPOKRATÉS. Hippocrates. Translated by Paul Potter. First published. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1988, xv, 293. ISBN 9780674995208. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, discussions, reading and analysis of Greek and Latin medical texts in Czech translation
- Assessment methods
- Written text (open and multiple choice questions), 70% success rate required.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week. - Teacher's information
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