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Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

Conversations: Othering Women in the Origins of Western Medicine w/ Dr Christie Vogler (Part 1)

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.85.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Liv speaks with Dr Christie Vogler about the long and storied and utterly infuriating ancient history of women's medicine in the West. The video clips referenced: Competing Medical Practices in Domina: Livia & Augustus's story in 'Domina' - Part 21; Medical Pluralism on HBO’s Rome: Rome Pullo has surgery HD; and if you want to see the transition to modern medicine in the late 19th century, check out the series The Artful Dodger: The Artful Dodger | Official Trailer | Hulu. And check out Christie's podcast, Movies We Dig, soon to be joining the newly established Memory Collective podcast network!

Submit your question for the next Q&A at mythsbaby.com/questions and get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, by subscribing to the Oracle Edition at patreon.com/mythsbaby

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

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See asda.com slash small stores. Online charges may apply. Hello, this is let's talk about myths, baby, and I'm here with a baby. And I'm here with a quick introduction.

1:13.0

I actually, you'll hear, I start today's conversation episode by attempting to actually do the introduction in the episode.

1:21.2

Because I'm trying to do that now so that I don't have this extra piece.

1:24.7

All to say, there's going to be a double me singing that song.

1:29.5

But I am here with this extra introduction because I just listen back to this episode and so many

1:36.8

things, so many things are happening. So I spoke today with Dr. Christy Vogler, who is a returning

1:43.3

guest and who studies medicine in the ancient

1:46.7

world, but specifically how medicine interacts with women in varied ways. And so this conversation,

1:56.0

if you can believe it, is fucking fascinating. It's also only part one because we talked for an hour and a half and only

2:02.5

got through half of what we wanted to say. And it's really good and really powerful. I can't wait

2:07.3

for you to hear both parts. But I have to share that since we recorded this on January 24th,

2:13.1

which is just like really relevant because we were both slightly unhinged.

2:27.7

You know, we'd just watched a Nazi salute performed at an inauguration and everything else that happened over the like three days in between us recording and the fascist inauguration into the United States.

2:39.0

And so it's just like there's a lot happening here.

2:42.3

But Christy is also the host of one of the hosts of the podcast movies we dig, which I

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