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Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800
L.f. Whaley
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Paperback. Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; MBX; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.
Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349328703
SKU
V9781349328703
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99-15
About L.f. Whaley
LEIGH WHALEY Professor of European history at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her research interests range from the French Revolution to Women, Gender and Science and Medicine. She has published books on Napoleon, the French Revolution and a History of Women in Science. Her most recent publication, Clandestine Operations: Odette Sansom and Andrée Borrel, Exemplary Agents of the Special ... Read more
Reviews for Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800
'Given the work's broad scope, which encourages readers to think about wider developments over time and across Europe, it is a fine book to assign undergraduates and a handy reference guide for more advanced scholars.' -Social History of Medicine