Forgotten Healers : Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy / Sharon T. Strocchia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strocchia, Sharon T., Author.

Series:

I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women healers--Italy--History--16th century.

Women healers.

Women healers--Italy--History--17th century.

Women in medicine--Italy--History--16th century.

Women in medicine.

Women in medicine--Italy--History--17th century.

Medical care--Italy--History--16th century.

Medical care.

Medical care--Italy--History--17th century.

Medicine--Italy--History--16th century.

Medicine.

Medicine--Italy--History--17th century.

Italy.

Medical Subjects:

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Renaissance Italy women from all walks of life played a central role in health care and the early development of medical science. Observing that the frontlines of care are often found in the household and other spaces thought of as female, Sharon Strocchia encourages us to rethink women's place in the history of medicine.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES

A NOTE ON DATES AND CURRENCY

Introduction

1 The Politics of Health at the Early Medici Court

2 Gifts of Health

3 The Business of Health

4 Agents of Health

5 Restoring Health

Conclusion

ABBREVIATIONS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780674243453

0674243455

9780674243446

0674243447

OCLC:

1138485542