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]
Personal life
In 1961, Gourevitch married Michel Gourevitch, a psychiatrist.[2] The couple had two sons named Alexandre and Raphaël.[2]
Selected publications
Books
(1984) Le mal d’être femme: La femme et la medécine dans la Rome antique. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. ISBN2-251-33803-9.
(1984) Le triangle hippocratique dans le monde gréco-romain. Le malade, sa maladie et son médecin. Rome: École française de Rome. ISBN2-7283-0064-X.