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Dynamis

versão On-line ISSN 2340-7948versão impressa ISSN 0211-9536

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CABALLERO NAVAS, Carmen. She will give birth immediately: pregnancy and childbirth in medieval Hebrew medical texts produced in the Mediterranean West. Dynamis [online]. 2014, vol.34, n.2, pp.377-401. ISSN 2340-7948.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0211-95362014000200006.

This essay approaches the medieval Hebrew literature on women's healthcare, with the aim of analysing notions and ideas regarding fertility, pregnancy and childbirth, as conveyed in the texts that form the corpus. Firstly, the work discusses the approach of written texts to pregnancy and childbirth as key elements in the explanation of women's health and the functioning of the female body. In this regard it also explores the role of this approach in the creation of meanings for both the female body and sexual difference. Secondly, it examines female management of pregnancy and childbirth as recorded in Hebrew medical literature. It pays attention to both the attitudes expressed by the authors, translators and copyists regarding female practice, as well as to instances and remedies derived from "local" traditions -that is, from women's experience- in the management of pregnancy and childbirth, also recorded in the texts. Finally, the paper explores how medical theories alien to, or in opposition to, Judaism were adopted or not and, at times, adapted to Jewish notions with the aim of eliminating tensions from the text, on the one hand, and providing Jewish practitioners with adequate training to retain their Christian clientele, on the other.

Palavras-chave : parto; Pregnancy; childbirth; hebrew texts; sexual difference; women's medical practice.

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