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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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Question Type

Implied

We’ll have to use POE to find the correct answer to this Inference question. Recall the main point of the passage: evidence suggests that there were women doctors in the ancient world and that their presence was an unremarkable part of life.

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Unsupported. The author never makes any suggestions about how long women doctors usually practiced medicine.

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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.

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Supported. The author says here that the earliest known official record of a woman being licensed to practice general medicine was in 1321. Since women doctors in ancient Greece and Rome lived long before 1321, we can infer that there is no known official record that these women were licensed to practice medicine.

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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.

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Unsupported. The author mentions one woman doctor who was posthumously honored for a medical accomplishment. We don’t know whether some women doctors were honored for nonmedical accomplishments.

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