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Great article, and references, thank you.
Though the relentless feminist eye fell on this one sentence--
More sophisticated medical knowledge was the privilege of male physicians, who could access the translated works of Galen and Hippocrates, and the encyclopedias by Ibn Sina and Al Rhazi.
"More sophisticated ..." Somehow, knowing women, I really doubt it.
More sophisticated nonsense, like the 4 humours of the body...
This part really stood out to me, because the same thing happened centuries later, in "the West," where male doctors tried to discredit midwives and basically made it seem like they didn't know anything because they didn't have the same education as the men. Just history repeating itself...
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This is so interesting, thanks for posting! I never really considered this topic much, but I suppose I assumed that women in the medical arts back then would've been as they were in the West- poisoners! lol