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Autore |
Green Monica Helen |
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Titolo |
Making women's medicine masculine : the rise of male authority in pre-modern gynaecology / / Monica H. Green |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-383-03495-8 |
0-19-160735-5 |
1-281-34148-7 |
9786611341480 |
0-19-154952-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xx, 409 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Gynecology - History - To 1500 |
Women - Health and hygiene - History - To 1500 |
Physicians - Attitudes - History - To 1500 |
Women gynecologists - History - To 1500 |
Sexism in medicine - History - To 1500 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Formerly CIP. |
Previously issued in print: 2008. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [358]-384) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; List of Illustrations and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Literacy, Medicine, and Gender; 1. The Gentle Hand of a Woman? Trota and Women's Medicine at Salerno; 2. Men's Practice of Women's Medicine in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries; 3. Bruno's Paradox: Women and Literate Medicine; 4. In a Language Women Understand: the Gender of the Vernacular; 5. Slander and the Secrets of Women; 6. The Masculine Birth of Gynaecology; Conclusion: The Medieval Legacy: Medicine of, for, and by Women; Appendix 1. Medieval and Renaissance Owners of Trotula Manuscripts |
Appendix 2. Printed Gynaecological and Obstetrical Texts, 1474-1600References; General Index; Index of Manuscripts Cited |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Using sources ranging from the famous 12th-century female practitioner, Trota of Salerno, through to the great tomes of |
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