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Making women's medicine masculine : the rise of male authority in pre-modern gynaecology / Monica H. Green.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Monica Helen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gynecology--History--To 1500.
- Women--Health and hygiene--History--To 1500.
- Physicians--Attitudes--History--To 1500.
- Women gynecologists--History--To 1500.
- Sexism in medicine--History--To 1500.
- Gynecology--history.
- Sexism in medicine.
- History.
- Women gynecologists.
- Physicians--Attitudes.
- Women--Health and hygiene.
- Gynecology.
- Europe.
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
- History, Medieval.
- Men.
- Physician's Role--history.
- Prejudice.
- Medical Subjects:
- Gynecology--history.
- Europe.
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
- History, Medieval.
- Men.
- Physician's Role--history.
- Prejudice.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 409 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- The gentle hand of a woman? Trota and women's medicine at Salerno
- Men's practice of women's medicine in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
- Bruno's paradox: women and literate medicine
- In a language women understand: the gender of the vernacular
- Slander and the secrets of women
- The masculine birth of gynaecology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [358]-384) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780199211494
- 0199211493
- OCLC:
- 173469802
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