Self-study
P1
Intro to Topic ·
Not a lot of evidence about ancient female doctors
Main Point ·
There were female doctors in the ancient world
I'm anticipating that the rest of the passage will dive into the "evidence" for this claim.
P2
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Premise ·
Scant written evidence indicatives that presence of women doctors were taken for granted
Author seems to be claiming that if it was such an odd thing for women to be doctors that surely there would have been more written about this. But that there wasn't is taken to be evidence that women doctors were nothing special.
Example ·
Plato's The Republic refers to women doctors
He's was not arguing that women ought to be doctors. From his argument, we can infer that he and his society simply took it for granted that women already were doctors.
P3
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Premise ·
Women were not just midwives; they were doctors
Greek and Latin have different terms for "midwife" and "doctor." Texts suggest that they treated disease, not just delivered babies.
P4
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Premise ·
Medical texts cited female doctors without special comment
Author takes this to be evidence that the presence of women doctors were taken for granted, that it wasn't special.
Passage Style
Single position
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a
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Unsupported. The author never makes any suggestions about how long women doctors usually practiced medicine.
b
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Unsupported. The author never suggests that women who weren’t doctors still practiced medicine informally. In fact, he doesn’t say anything about women who were not doctors; he only talks about women who were doctors.
c
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Supported. The author says
d
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Unsupported. The author says that women doctors’ practice was not limited to midwifery, but he never suggests that those who practiced general medicine did not also work as midwives.
e
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Unsupported. The author mentions