Making women's medicine masculine : the rise of male authority in pre-modern gynaecology

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Green, Monica Helen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
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.
Table of 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.

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