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Conférence « The Color of Gender : On Substance, Sex Determination, and Anatomical Difference in the Caraka and Susruta-samhitas »

18 may 2008 17:00 - 19:00

Maison Suger, 16-18 rue Suger 75006 Paris.

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Programme «Médecines et religions en Asie du Sud ».

Coordination : Ines Zupanov. Chercheur invitée : Martha Ann Selby, (IEA-Paris, CEIAS-EHESS)

 « This lecture will delineate my preliminary thoughts in formulating a description of the semiotics of gender in the contexts of the plural medical worlds of classical South Asia, and will serve as a bit of a background for my second and third lectures. I draw my materials from two fundamental Sanskrit medical manuals, the Carak-samhita (which dates from around the first or second century C.E., and is the earliest surviving medical manual in Sanskrit) and the Susruta-samhita, redacted perhaps a hundred or so years later).

18 May 2008 19:00
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1079
Talks and lectures
History, philosophy and sociology of science