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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University Press
2019
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| Series: | I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The politics of health at the early Medici court
- Gifts of health: medical exchanges between court and convent
- The business of health: convent pharmacies in Renaissance Italy
- Agents of health: nun apothecaries and ways of knowing
- Restoring health: care and cure in Renaissance pox hospitals