Women Healers in Medieval Life and Literature / Muriel Joy Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Muriel Joy, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1943]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Looks at how the role for the administration of medical aid during the Middle Ages fell upon the women and how this was represented in the writing of the times.

Contents:

Frontmatter

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I. SOME FAMOUS WOMEN HEALERS IN LITERATURE

II. THE LAYMAN'S MEDICINE

III. LAY WOMEN HEALERS

IV. ACADEMIC MEDICINE

V. WOMEN PRACTITIONERS

VI. MEDIEVAL MIDWIVES

VII. MEDIEVAL NURSES

CONCLUSION

APPENDICES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89976-9

OCLC:

1100443707