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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Green, Monica Helen (Autor)
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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.