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Women and the practice of medical care in early modern Europe, 1400-1800 / Leigh Whaley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whaley, Leigh Ann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in medicine--Europe--History.
- Women in medicine.
- Medicine, Medieval--Europe.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Health Personnel--history.
- History.
- Europe.
- Women--history.
- History, 17th Century.
- History, 18th Century.
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Personnel--history.
- Europe.
- Women--history.
- History, 17th Century.
- History, 18th Century.
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 316 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230282919
- 0230282911
- OCLC:
- 646112089
- Publisher Number:
- 99943168448
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