Concepção, esterilidade e saúde das mulheres na medicina medieval (Montpellier - sécs. XIII-XIV)
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2020-08-26
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The work investigates how medieval medical thinking understood and explained the human life
generating process, contemplating the role played by both parents, and how women and their
bodies, the locus for reproduction by excellence, were interpreted and taken care of in their
physiological, anatomical and pathological dimensions. For this, we investigated a set of
gynecological and obstetrical treatises produced by masters and scholars linked to Montpellier's
medical studia (13th-14th centuries). This set includes the handbook of medical practice Lilium
medicinae by Bernardo de Gordonio and five monograph writings focused on the clinical problems
of conception and sterility: Compilacio de concepcione and Interrogationses in cura sterilitate
attributed to Arnaldo de Vilanova and the anonymous Tractatus de sterilitate mulierum, Tractatus
de conceptu and Tractatus de sterilitate. The medicine practiced in the medieval context, in which
these works are inserted, was based on a corpus of medico-philosophical texts by ancient and
medieval Arab and Latin authors. In this literature of heterogeneous origin and nature, the female
body was understood and explained from the same theoretical-conceptual basis and this integrated
and justified its reproductive function/capacity in a coherent medical doctrine that amalgamated
theoretical and empirical knowledge. In this perspective, the female body was constituted as a body
whose functions and organs were interconnected and intended for reproduction. For that, women's
body health and reproductive capacity were intrinsically linked, and one condition depended and
influenced the other. From these premises, the masters and scholars of the later Latin middle ages
produced knowledge (theoretical and practical) and acted in the scope of female medical
conditions. It is in this aspect of medieval medicine, that is, the medical care given to women and
their bodies, that we tackle throughout our work.
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SOUZA, Lidiane Alves de. Concepção, esterilidade e saúde das mulheres na medicina medieval (Montpellier - sécs. XIII-XIV). 2020. 287 f. Tese (Doutorado em História) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2020.