Making women's medicine masculine : the rise of male authority in pre-modern gynaecology /
Using sources ranging from the famous 12th-century female practitioner, Trota of Salerno, through to the great tomes of Renaissance male physicians, this is a pioneering study challenging the common belief that, prior to the 18th century, men were never involved in any aspect of women's healthc...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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Colección: | ACLS Fellows' publications.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.