Women and the practice of medical care in early modern Europe, 1400-1800

Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within thecontext of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challengesfaced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medicalpractice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800. 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 Operations Executive', appeared in 'Les femmes face àla guerre' (French and Francophone Women Facing War), edited by Alison S. Fell (Peter Lang, 2009). She teaches courses in Western Civilization, European Men and Women, and Comparative Revolutions. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction - The Medieval Contribution - New Medical Regulations and their Impact on Female Healers - Early Modern notions of Women: Contradictory Views on Women as Healers - Medical Treatises and Texts written by Women and for Women - Female Midwives and the Medical Profession - The Healing Care of Nurses - The 'Irregular' Female Healer in Early modern Europe: a Variety of Practitioners - Motherly Medicine: Domestic Healers and Apothecaries - The Wise-Woman as Healer: Popular Medicine, Witchcraft and Magic - Epilogue - Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-28291-9
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 328
• Fecha Publicación: 08/02/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido