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François Rabelais (1483–1553), Professor of Medicine at the prestigious Université de Montpellier in 1537, had a literary offspring named Gargantua. Gargantua was born in Lyon, after gestationing eleven months, in the fourth chapter of Dr. Rabelais’s “Vie inestimable du grand Gargantua, père du Pantagruel” ([16],[21]). The eleven month pregnancy provided Gargantua with a long and adventurous life in four subsequent volumes; and he is still very much alive in the history of ideas.
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Sass, HM. (1992). Diagnosing the Eleven Month Pregnancy: Some Aspects of Moral and Cultural Foundations in Medical Judgment. In: Peset, J.L., Gracia, D. (eds) The Ethics of Diagnosis. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 40. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-28333-3_14
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