1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970460003321

Autore

Wells Susan

Titolo

Out of the dead house : nineteenth-century women physicians and the writing of medicine / / Susan Wells

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001

ISBN

9786613862822

9781283550376

1283550377

9780299171735

0299171736

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Disciplina

610/.82/097309034

Soggetti

Women physicians - United States

Women in medicine - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-306) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Out of the deadhouse -- Medical conversations and medical histories -- Invisible writing I: Ann Preston invents an institution -- Learning to write medicine -- Invisible writing II: Hannah Longshore and the borders of regularity -- Mary Putnam Jacobi: medicine as will and idea -- Forbidden sights: women and the visual economy of medicine.

Sommario/riassunto

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, two thousand women physicians formed a significant and lively scientific community in the United States. Many were active writers; they participated in the development of medical record-keeping and research, and they wrote self-help books, social and political essays, fiction, and poetry. Out of the Dead House rediscovers the contributions these women made to the developing practice of medicine and to a community of women in science. Susan Wells combines studies of medical genres, such as the patient history or the diagnostic conversation, with discussions of individual writers. The women she discusses include Ann Preston, the first woman dean of a medical college; Hannah Longshore, a successful practitioner who combined conventional and homeopathic medicine; Rebecca Crumpler, the first African American woman physician to



publish a medical book; and Mary Putnam Jacobi, writer of more than 180 medical articles and several important books. Wells shows how these women learned to write, what they wrote, and how these texts were read. Out of the Dead House also documents the ways that women doctors influenced medical discourse during the formation of the modern profession. They invented forms and strategies for medical research and writing, including methods of using survey information, taking patient histories, and telling case histories. Out of the Dead House adds a critical episode to the developing story of women as producers and critics of culture, including scientific culture.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911003662203321

Autore

Papasidero Marco

Titolo

Thefts of Relics in Italy : From Late Antiquity to the Central Middle Ages, 300-1150

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

1-04-079842-X

1-003-70819-6

1-04-077248-X

90-485-5553-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (0 pages)

Collana

Italy in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages

Disciplina

235.20945

Soggetti

Theft of relics

Italy History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Abbreviations Acknowledgements List of figures Introduction 1. Relics and Thefts: A Preliminary Approach 2. Thefts of relics in Late Antiquity (300-600) 3. Thefts of relics in the Early Middle Ages (600-950) 4. Thefts of relics in the Central Middle Ages (950-1150) 5. The accounts of translation: historical, literary, and visual representations 6. Anthropology of the thefts of relics 7. Dreams, Rituals, and Spaces



Conclusions. Thefts of relics: a never-ending story Appendix Map of the thefts of relics Bibliography Primary sources Secoundary sources.

Sommario/riassunto

With the emergence of the cult of saints, their remains assumed a central role, becoming sources of miraculous events and healings.According to the accounts of their martyrdom, the bodies were initially removed immediately after death to protect them from destruction by the elements or animals.