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Author Green, Monica Helen.

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

Imprint Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xx, 409 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series ACLS Fellows' publications.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [358]-384) and indexes.
Contents The gentle hand of a woman? Trota and women's medicine at Salerno -- Men's practice of women's medicine in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- Bruno's paradox: women and literate medicine -- In a language women understand: the gender of the vernacular -- Slander and the secrets of women -- The masculine birth of gynaecology.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellows' Publications]) ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject 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.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form: Original 9780199211494 (DLC) 2007039555
Standard No. 2027/heb09091 hdl

 
    
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