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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819947203321

Autore

Green Monica Helen

Titolo

Making women's medicine masculine : the rise of male authority in pre-modern gynaecology / / Monica H. Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-383-03495-8

0-19-160735-5

1-281-34148-7

9786611341480

0-19-154952-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 409 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

618.1

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [358]-384) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

Using sources ranging from the famous 12th-century female practitioner, Trota of Salerno, through to the great tomes of



Renaissance male physicians, this is a pioneering study challenging the common belief that, prior to the 18th century, men were never involved in any aspect of women's healthcare in Europe.