Operations on hermaphrodites and castration in byzantine times (324–1453 AD)

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 232-235

  Lascaratos, John ^a   Kostakopoulos, Athanasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Byzantine medicine; Castration; Change of sex; Hermaphroditism; Leonidas; Medical ethics; Soranus

Indexed keywords

CASTRATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0030810658     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000282990     Document Type: Article

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