1. E.g. Ann Ellis Hanson, “The Medical Writers' Woman”, in: David Halperin, John Winkler, and Froma Zeitlin, eds.,Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), 309–38; Lesley Dean-Jones,Women's Bodies in Clasical Greek Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994); Rebecca Flemming,Medicine and the Making of Roman Women: Gender, nature, and authority from Celsus to Galen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000); Monica H. Green,Women's Healthcare in the Medieval West (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2000); eadem, Monica H. Green,The Trotula; A medieval compendium of women's medicne (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
2. Helen King, “The Daughter of Leonides: reading the Hippocratic corpus”, in: Averil Cameron, ed.,History as Text: The Writing of Ancient History (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1990), 13–32.
3. See Lloyd's,Adversaries and authorities; Investigations into ancient Greek and Chinese science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 20–46.
4. For a guarded but positive comment on this question, see the words of the late Kwang-chih Chang, Chang, “China on the Eve of the Historical Period,” in:The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C., ed. by Michael Lowe and Edward L. Shaughnessy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 71–73.
5. The use of the past in early Chinese rhetoric is explored quite brilliantly in David Schaberg'sA Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2001).