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Forgotten healers women and the pursuit of health in Late Renaissance Italy

In Renaissance Italy women played a more central role in providing health care than historians have thus far acknowledged. Women from all walks of life--from household caregivers and nurses to nuns working as apothecaries--drove the Italian medical economy. In convent pharmacies, pox hospitals, girl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strocchia, Sharon T., 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press 2019
Colección:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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