02472nam 22005293 450 991052466630332120230719145741.01-5017-5832-2(CKB)5590000000443460(MiAaPQ)EBC6176197(Au-PeEL)EBL6176197(OCoLC)1155487890(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69516(EXLCZ)99559000000044346020210901d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierActs of Care Recovering Women in Late Medieval HealthIthaca (New York)Cornell University Press2021Ithaca :Cornell University Press,2021.©2021.1 online resource (329 pages)1-5017-5354-1 ACTS OF CARE -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: To Heed the Trace -- Part I. Therapeutic Narratives -- 1. Translating Care: The Circulation of Healing Stories -- 2. Bedside Comforts: The Social Organization of Care -- Part II. Therapeutic Knowledge -- 3. Empirical Bodies: Competing Theories of Therapeutic Authority -- Part III. Therapeutic Practice -- 4. Rhythmic Medicine: The Psalter as a Therapeutic Technology in Beguine Communities -- 5. Salutary Words: Saints' Lives as Efficacious Texts in Cistercian Women's Abbeys -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index."Brings together the histories of European medicine, gender, and Christianity to re-embed women's participation in medieval healthcare. Using devotional manuscripts, hagiographical texts, liturgy, poetry, and medical treatises, it reveals the healthcare knowledge and caregiving practices of Cistercian nuns and beguines in the late medieval Lowlands" Provided by publisher.MedicinebicsscMedieval historybicsscFeminism & feminist theorybicsscWomenWomen's HealthHistory of Women's HealthMiddle AgesMedievalMedicineMedieval historyFeminism & feminist theoryRitchey Sara1146099MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910524666303321Acts of Care2686728UNINA