Women's healthcare in the medieval west : texts and contexts / Monica H. Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Monica H.

Series:

Collected studies ; CS680.

Variorum collected studies series ; CS680

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Medieval--Europe.

Medicine, Medieval.

Gynecology--Europe--History.

Gynecology.

Medicine, Medieval, in literature.

Women's health services--Europe--History.

Women's health services.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2000.

Contents:

Historical Questions and Methodologies

I Women's Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe: Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages, ed. J. Bennett et al. Chicago, 1989 39

II Documenting Medieval Women's Medical Practice: Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death, ed. Luis Garcia-Ballester et al. Cambridge, UK, 1994 322

Identifying the Texts

III The De genecia Attributed to Constantine the African: Speculum 62. Cambridge, MA, 1987 299

IV Obstetrical and Gynecological Texts in Middle English: Studies in the Age of Chaucer 14. New Brunswick, 1992 53

V The Development of the Trotula: Revue d'Histoire des Textes 26. Paris, 1996 119

Exploring the Contexts

VI 'Traittle tout de menconges': The Secres des dames, 'Trotula,' and Attitudes Towards Women's Medicine in Fourteenth- and Early Fifteenth-Century France: Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference, ed. Marilyn Desmond. Minneapolis, 1998 146

VII The Possibilities of Literacy and the Limits of Reading: Women and the Gendering of Medical Literacy: First publication 1

Medieval Gynecological Literature: A Handlist: First publication 1.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical refrences and indexes.

ISBN:

0860788261

OCLC:

45683100