Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1800

✍ Scribed by Leigh Whaley (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 323
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction....Pages 1-6
The Medieval Contribution....Pages 7-25
New Medical Regulations and their Impact on Female Healers....Pages 26-47
Early Modern Notions of Women: Contradictory Views on Women as Healers....Pages 48-67
Medical Treatises and Texts Written by Women and for Women....Pages 68-90
Female Midwives and the Medical Profession....Pages 91-111
The Healing Care of Nurses....Pages 112-130
The ‘Irregular’ Female Healer in Early Modern Europe: A Variety of Practitioners....Pages 131-149
Motherly Medicine: Domestic Healers and Apothecaries....Pages 150-173
The Wise-Woman as Healer: Popular Medicine, Witchcraft and Magic....Pages 174-195
Epilogue....Pages 196-197
Back Matter....Pages 198-316

✦ Subjects

European History; Modern History; Clinical Psychology; History of Medicine; History of Early Modern Europe; Social History

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