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?

filozinni August 18, 2020

Why is C correct

Why is C correct? I cannot find the support for it in the passage. Thank you in advance!

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shunhe 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 August 19, 2020

I understand now, thank you @Shunhe!

shunhe August 20, 2020

No problem, glad I was able to help!

lklop June 1, 2021

Couldn't the same argument be made for E?

lklop June 1, 2021

I mean D*