Making women's medicine masculine : the rise of male authority in pre-modern gynaecology / Monica H. Green.
- Green, Monica Helen
- Date:
- 2008
- Books
- Online
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About this work
Publication/Creation
Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Physical description
xx, 409 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents
The gentle hand of a woman? Trota and women's medicine at Salerno -- Men's practice of women's medicine in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- Bruno's paradox: women and literate medicine -- In a language women understand: the gender of the vernacular -- Slander and the secrets of women -- The masculine birth of gynaecology.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [358]-384) and indexes.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellows' Publications]) ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.