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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Strocchia, Sharon T., 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press 2019
Series:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
Subjects:
1500-1699
Women healers > Italy > History > 16th century.
Women healers > Italy > History > 17th century.
Women in medicine > Italy > History > 16th century.
Women in medicine > Italy > History > 17th century.
Medical care > Italy > History > 16th century.
Medical care > Italy > History > 17th century.
Medicine > Italy > History > 16th century.
Medicine > Italy > History > 17th century.
Medicine > History.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
History of Medicine
Physicians, Women > history
History, 16th Century
History, 17th Century
Guérisseuses > Italie > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Guérisseuses > Italie > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Femmes en médecine > Italie > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Femmes en médecine > Italie > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Médecine > Italie > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Médecine > Italie > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Soins médicaux > Italie > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Soins médicaux > Italie > Histoire > 17e siècle.
history of medicine.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
Medical care
Medicine
Women healers
Women in medicine
Italy
History
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