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Making women's medicine masculine: the rise of male authority in pre-modern gynaecology

Monica Helen Green
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  • Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page vii)
  • List of Illustrations and Tables (page xvii)
  • List of Abbreviations (page xix)
  • Introduction: Literacy, Medicine, and Gender (page 1)
  • 1. The Gentle Hand of a Woman? Trota and Women's Medicine at Salerno (page 29)
  • 2. Men's Practice of Women's Medicine in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (page 70)
  • 3. Bruno's Paradox: Women and Literate Medicine (page 118)
  • 4. In a Language Women Understand: the Gender of the Vernacular (page 163)
  • 5. Slander and the Secret's of Women (page 204)
  • 6. The Masculine Birth of Gynaecology (page 246)
  • Conclusion: The Medieval Legacy: Medicine of, for, and by Women (page 288)
  • Appendix 1. Medieval and Renaissance Owners of Trotula Manuscripts (page 325)
  • Appendix 2. Printed Gynaecological and Obstetrical Texts, 1474-1600 (page 345)
  • References (page 358)
  • General Index (page 385)
  • Index of Manuscripts Cited (page 406)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SP 86.1 (Jan. 2011): 206-207 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41105535
JHMAS 64.3 (Jul. 2009): 383-385 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_medicine_and_allied_sciences/v064/64.3.turner.html
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Published: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780199211494 (hardcover)
  • 9780191607356 (ebook)
Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Subject
  • Science & Technology
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