Danielle Gourevitch

Danielle Gourevitch (born 1941) is a French medical historian and classicist.

Danielle Gourevitch
Born
Danielle Leherpeux

21 Jan 1941
Pluméliau
Academic background
Academic work
DisciplineMedical historian

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.

References
  1. "Notice de personne "Gourevitch, Danielle (1941-....)" | BnF Catalogue général".
  2. "Danielle Gourevitch | Dictionnaire prosopographique de l'EPHE". prosopo.ephe.psl.eu. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  3. "Gourevitch, Danielle - Persée". www.persee.fr. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  4. 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.
  5. "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.
  6. "Membres correspondants et membres effectifs". International Academy of the History of Science. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  7. 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.
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