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Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550 /
This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250 to 1550. By foregrounding gender as an organizing principle of healthcare, the contributors challenge traditional binaries that ahistorically separate care from cu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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| Colección: | Premodern health, disease and disability ;
3. Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Caring by the hours. The psalter as a gendered healthcare technology
- Female saints as agents of female healing. Gendered practices and patronage in the cult of St. Cunigunde
- Blood, milk, and breastbleeding. The humoral economy of women's bodies in medieval medicine
- Care of the breast in the late Middle Ages. the Tractatus de passionibus mamillarum
- Household medicine for a Renaissance court. Caterina Sforza's Ricettario reconsidered
- Understanding/controlling the female body in ten recipes. Print and the dissemination of medical knowledge about women in the early sixteenth century
- Ubi non est mulier, ingemiscit egens? Gendered perceptions of care from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries
- Domestic care in the sixteenth century. Expectations, experiences, and practices from a gendered perspective
- Bathtubs as a healing approach in fifteenth-century Ottoman medicine
- Gender, old age, and the infertile body in medieval medicine
- Gender segregation and the possibility of Arabo-Galenic gynecological practice in the medieval Islamic world
- Afterword. Healing women and women healers.