Danielle Gourevitch (21 January 1941 – 13 June 2021) was a French medical historian and classicist.
Danielle Gourevitch | |
|---|---|
| Born | Danielle Leherpeux 21 Jan 1941 |
| Died | 13 June 2021 |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Medical historian |
Early life and education edit
Born Danielle Leherpeux in Pluméliau (Morbihan),[1][2] Gourevitch attended the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in Sèvres.[2]
Career edit
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 in Princeton, New Jersey.[5]
Recognition edit
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 edit
In 1961, Gourevitch married Michel Gourevitch, a psychiatrist.[2] The couple had two sons named Alexandre and Raphaël.[2]
Selected publications edit
Books edit
- (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 edit
- (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.
External links edit
References edit
- ^ a b "Notice de personne "Gourevitch, Danielle (1941-2021)" | BnF Catalogue général".
- ^ a b c d "Danielle Gourevitch | Dictionnaire prosopographique de l'EPHE". prosopo.ephe.psl.eu. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- ^ "Gourevitch, Danielle - Persée". www.persee.fr. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- ^ Huisman, Frank; Harley Warner, John, eds. (2004). Locating Medical History: Stories and Their Meanings (PDF). Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 486. ISBN 0-8018-7861-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-11-10. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- ^ "2001-2002 Members, Visitors and Research Assistants - School of Historical Studies | Institute for Advanced Study". www.ias.edu. 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- ^ "Membres correspondants et membres effectifs". International Academy of the History of Science. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- ^ Boudon-Millot, Véronique; Dasen, Véronique; Maire, Brigitte (2008). 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 (in French). Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de médecine. ISBN 978-2-915634-11-2.