Danielle Gourevitch

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Danielle Gourevitch
Born Danielle Leherpeux
21 Jan 1941
Pluméliau
Academic work
Discipline Medical historian

Danielle Gourevitch (born 1941, died on 13 June 2021) was a French medical historian and classicist.

Early life and education

Born Danielle Leherpeux on the 21st January 1941 in Pluméliau (Morbihan),[1][2] Gourevitch attended the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in Sèvres.[2]

Career

From 1989 to 2008, the year of her retirement, Gourevitch served as the director of studies and chair of medical history for the École pratique des hautes études.[1][3] While in this position, she specialised in teaching ancient Greek and Roman and nineteenth-century medicine.[4] In 2002, she was made a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.[5]

Recognition

Gourevitch became a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science in 1995, and a full member in 1999.[6] In 2008, a festschrift was published in her honour entitled Femmes en médecine: actes de la journée internationale d'étude organisée à l"Université René-Descartes-Paris V, le 17 Mars 2006 en l'honneur de Danielle Gourevitch, edited by Véronique Boudon-Millot, Véronique Dasen, and Brigitte Maire and based on a study day also held in her honour.[7]

Personal life

In 1961, Gourevitch married Michel Gourevitch, a psychiatrist.[2] The couple had two sons named Alexandre and Raphaël.[2]

Selected publications

Books

  • (1984) Le mal d’être femme: La femme et la medécine dans la Rome antique. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. ISBN 2-251-33803-9.
  • (1984) Le triangle hippocratique dans le monde gréco-romain. Le malade, sa maladie et son médecin. Rome: École française de Rome. ISBN 2-7283-0064-X.
  • (2001, with Marie-Thérèse Raepsaet-Charlier) La femme dans la Rome antique. Paris: Hachette. ISBN 2-01-235310-X.
  • (2011) Pour une archéologie de la médecine romaine. Collection Pathographie, 8. Paris: De Boccard. ISBN 9782701803029
  • (2013) Limos kai loimos. A study of the Galenic Plague. Paris: De Boccard. ISBN 9782701803364.

Edited volumes

  • (1992) Maladie et maladies. Histoire et conceptualisation. Mélanges en l’honneur de Mirko Grmek. Geneva: Librairie Droz.
  • (1995) Histoire de la médecine. Leçons méthodologiques. Paris: Ellipses. ISBN 2-7298-9568-X.
  • (1995) Médecins érudits de Coray à Sigerist. Actes du colloque de Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais (juin 1994). Paris: De Boccard, Paris. ISBN 2-7018-0095-1.

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