June 2006 LSAT
Section 3
Question 20
The passage most strongly supports which one of the following inferences about women in ancient Greece and Rome?
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shunhe on August 19, 2020
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.
filozinni on August 19, 2020
I understand now, thank you @Shunhe!shunhe on August 20, 2020
No problem, glad I was able to help!lklop on June 1, 2021
Couldn't the same argument be made for E?lklop on June 1, 2021
I mean D*