Medical authority and Englishwomen's herbal texts, 1550-1650
By: by Rebecca Laroche.
Series: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780754666783
Subjects: English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Herbals -- Great Britain -- History; Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Women in medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Women in medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Botany, Medical -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Botany, Medical -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "This manlike worke of herbes": gender and the English herbal; title: Inscriptions in herbal texts and the location of medical authority; title: Gentlewomen's herbal readings and the absent-present physicians; title: Isabella Whitney's herbs: print medical texts and London satire.