| Contents |
The Medieval contribution -- New medical regulations and their impact on female healers -- Early modern notions of women: contradictory views on women as healers -- Medical treatises and texts written by women and for women -- Female midwives and the medical profession -- The healing care of nurses -- The "Irregular" female healer in early modern Europe: a variety of practitioners -- Motherly medicine: domestic healers and apothecaries -- The wise-woman as healer: popular medicine, witchcraft and magic. |
| Abstract |
Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: 9786612998720 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9780230295179 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0230295177 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard identifier# |
9786612998720 |
| Standard identifier# |
40019257311 |
| Standard identifier# |
10.1057/9780230295179 |
| Stock number | 299872 MIL |
