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

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).