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DEMAND, N., Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece. Johns Hopkins University Press, Beltimore / London, 2004. Reprint 1st ed.1994. XX,276p. ills.(B&W photographs). Paperback. ‘Birth, Death and Motherhood probably will become one of the most frequently cited works in the twenty-first century on Greek gynaecology and obstetrics. Feminist scholars may growl at my opinions, but the History of medicine is littered -as os medicine itself- with fads and fashions of a specific era, in turn colouring the assumptions of writers in any century. Demand builds on the best and most reliable of foundations: the sources. Her interpretation of those sources will continue to engender controversy, but debate is the centrepiece of all historical interpretations. Her book is one of the best yet to produced on the heated topic of male vs. Female medicine in Ancient Greece. I hope that it will lead to a full translation and commentary into English of the Hippocratic ‘Diseases of Women’ and similar tracts.’ (JOHN SCARBOROUGH in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1999, p.143). € 60.00 (Antiquarian) ISBN: 9780801880537