Danielle Gourevitch
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Danielle Gourevitch | |
|---|---|
| Born | Danielle Leherpeux 21 Jan 1941 |
| Died | 13 June 2021 |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Medical historian |
Danielle Gourevitch (21 January 1941 – 13 June 2021) was a French medical historian and classicist.
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 in Princeton, New Jersey.[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]
