Women's medical work in early modern France /

Situates the practices and perceptions of women's medical work in France in the context of the sixteenth century and its medical evolution and innovations. The book argues that early modern understandings of medical practice and authority were highly flexible and subject to change.

Detaylı Bibliyografya
Yazar: Broomhall, Susan
Materyal Türü: Licensed eBooks
Dil:İngilizce
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2011.
Seri Bilgileri:Gender in history.
Online Erişim:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.17842160
İçindekiler:
  • Women and the medical guilds
  • The university: women and the Faculty of Medicine in Paris
  • Hospital nursing by women religious: the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris
  • Female healing before the law
  • The book trades: female medical practice in print
  • Nursing, caring, curing: women's work in municipal child care
  • The world of the court: women serving the royal family
  • French women and reproductive knowledge at the Spanish court
  • Elite women and reproductive knowledge: the Nassau sisters.