Hippocrates' Women: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece, by Helen King (1998) traces the gender bias of ancient Greek medicine into modern practice. I have only read reviews of it, but it does seem to cover both diagnosis and prescribing. A key quote from the book appears to be King's quote from Seymour Hayden, writing in the British Medical Journal in 1867: "we, being men, have our patients, who are women, at our mercy"; things have changed, but maybe not all that much. Susan
