Description
Book SynopsisSituates the practices and perceptions of women’s medical work in France in the context of the sixteenth century and its medical evolution and innovations. The book argues that early modern understandings of medical practice and authority were highly flexible and subject to change.
Trade ReviewShe is able to put together a coherent and impressive picture of women in health care, women functioning and writing about it for both male and female readerships.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Notes on text
Introduction
1. Women and the medical guilds
2. The university: women and the Faculty of Medicine in Paris
3. Hospital nursing by women religious: the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris
4. Female healing before the law
5. The book trades: female medical practice in print
6. Nursing, caring, curing: women’s work in municipal child care
7. The world of the court: women serving the royal family
8. French women and reproductive knowledge at the Spanish court
9. Elite women and reproductive knowledge: the Nassau sisters
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
