Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800 [electronic resource] /
Whaley, L.author.
Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
(Publisher-supplied data) Chapter One: The Medieval Contribution -- Chapter Two: New Medical Regulations and their Impact on Female Healers -- Chapter Three: Early Modern notions of Women: Contradictory Views on Women as Healers -- Chapter Four: Medical Treatises and Texts written by Women and for Women -- Chapter Five: Female Midwives and the Medical Profession   Chapter Six: The Healing Care of Nurses -- Chapter Seven: The "Irregular" Female Healer in Early modern Europe: a Variety of Practitioners -- Chapter Eight: Motherly Medicine: Domestic Healers and Apothecaries -- Chapter Nine: The wise-woman as healer: Popular Medicine, Witchcraft and Magic.
Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.
Europe-History.
History, Modern.
Clinical psychology.
Medicine-History.
Europe-History-1492-.
Social history.
European History.
Modern History.
Clinical Psychology.
History of Medicine.
History of Early Modern Europe.
Social History.