Women and the practice of medical care in early modern Europe, 1400-1800 / Leigh Whaley.

  • Whaley, Leigh Ann.
Date:
2011
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Publication/Creation

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Physical description

vi, 316 pages ; 23 cm

Contributors

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-296) and index.

Contents

The Medieval contribution -- New medical regulations and their impact on female healers -- Early modern notions of women: contradictory views on women as healers -- Medical treatises and texts written by women and for women -- Female midwives and the medical profession -- The healing care of nurses -- The "Irregular" female healer in early modern Europe: a variety of practitioners -- Motherly medicine: domestic healers and apothecaries -- The wise-woman as healer: popular medicine, witchcraft and magic.

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    History of Medicine
    CBW.AA4-7
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ISBN

  • 9780230282919
  • 0230282911