Dr. Carmen Caballero-Navas is Associate Professor at the University of Granada. Her research focuses on the Hebrew textual production on women\u2019s healthcare in the Mediterranean West during the Middle Ages, with special attention to women\u2019s experiences.<\/p>\n
The presentation focuses on the early stage of the reception and accommodation of gynecological literature by Jewish authors and translators during the Middle Ages. It discusses the Hebrew textual production on women\u2019s health care from the end of the twelfth and during the thirteenth century, offering a glimpse of the gynaecological literature available in Hebrew at the time, as well as a contribution to the understanding of textual choice and dissemination. It explores the weight that theories on the functioning of the female body from the Latin and Arabic medical traditions had in the Hebrew corpus and evaluates ways in which notions on women\u2019s physiology were accommodated by Jewish authors, translators and copyist at this early stage.<\/p>\n
Dr. Carmen Caballero-Navas\u2019 presentation is also part of the conference\u00a0\u201cFemale Bodies and Female Practitioners in the Medical Traditions of the Late Antique Mediterranean Word\u201d<\/a> which takes place from the 27.10. \u2013 29.10. 2014.<\/p>\n