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Auteur principal: PALMIRA FONTES DA COSTA
Format: Artículo científico
Langue:en
Publié: Universidade de Aveiro 2021
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Accès en ligne:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=321081233016
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  • Hermaphrodites and the understanding of sexual difference in the early seventeenth century PALMIRA FONTES DA COSTA Lengua y Literatura jean riolan caspar bauhin Hermaphrodites rodrigo de castro history of medicine In this paper, I compare the ways in which three seventeenth-century physicians, Rodrigo de Castro, Caspar Bauhin and Jean Riolan, dealt in their works with the anatomical and social problems posed by the hermaphroditic body. I show that early seventeenth-century medical discourses on hermaphrodites have recourse to a diverse synthesis of theories, sources and medical cases and that they are influenced by cultural anxieties over the disruptive power of sexual ambiguity. 2021 artículo científico 0874-5498 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=321081233016 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3210 Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em debate application/pdf Universidade de Aveiro Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em debate (Portugal) Num.23.1