Why is C correct
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filozinni
· started 2020-08-18 09:02
· last activity 2021-06-01 14:00
· 5 replies
Why is C correct? I cannot find the support for it in the passage. Thank you in advance!
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shunhe
· 2020-08-19 03:33
Hi @filozinni,
Thanks for the question! So we’re being asked here for an inference about women in ancient Greece and Rome. And (C) suggests that this inference is that there’s no known official record that any of them were licensed to practice general medicine.
So let’s think about this: how do we know that there used to be women doctors anyway? Well, let’s take a look at the very first lines of the passage, where we’re told that “surviving sources of information about women doctors in ancient Greece and Rome are fragmentary: some passing mentions by classical authors, scattered references in medical works, and about 40 inscriptions on tombs and monuments.” So there’s just a bunch of fragments, we don’t really have an official record. It’s a bunch of stuff collected from a bunch of different sources.
Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.
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filozinni
· 2020-08-19 07:54
I understand now, thank you @Shunhe!
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shunhe
· 2020-08-20 23:00
No problem, glad I was able to help!
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lklop
· 2021-06-01 14:00
Couldn't the same argument be made for E?
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lklop
· 2021-06-01 14:00
I mean D*
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