Making women's medicine masculine : the rise of male authority in pre-modern gynaecology / Monica H. Green.
2008
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Title
Making women's medicine masculine : the rise of male authority in pre-modern gynaecology / Monica H. Green.
Created/published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Description
xx, 409 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Associated name
Green, Monica Helen, author.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [358]-384) and indexes.
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.
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.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Oxford.
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RG51 .G74 2008