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Surviving sources of information about women doctors in ancient Greece and Rome are fragmentary: some passing mentions by classical authors, scattered references in medical works, and about 40 inscriptions on tombs and monuments. ███

Intro to Topic · Not a lot of evidence about ancient female doctors

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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The author doesn’t mention any specific diseases in the passage, nor does he differentiate between medicine in ancient times and medicine today.

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The author doesn’t mention a field of medicine that was not practiced by women in the ancient world. He just says that there was “a broad scope of practice for women doctors,” and women didn’t only practice midwifery.

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In P1, the author says that the history of women in medicine does not begin with Francesca de Romana's licensure. He never mentions a scholar who thinks that de Romana was the first female doctor in Western society.

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The author never mentions doctors’ training or education in ancient Greece and Rome.

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This is explicitly stated in P4. The author mentions ancient writers, including Galen and Pliny the elder, whose medical works quote male and female doctors and cite excerpts from the writings of women.

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