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.

Using sources ranging from the famous 12th-century female practitioner, Trota of Salerno, through to the great tomes of Renaissance male physicians, this is a pioneering study challenging the common belief that, prior to the 18th century, men were never involved in any aspect of women's healthc...

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Main Author: Green, Monica Helen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:ACLS Fellows' publications.
Subjects:
To 1500
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.
Medicine, Medieval.
Men.
Prejudices.
men (male humans)
MEDICAL > Reproductive Medicine & Technology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Women's Health.
Prejudices
Men
Medicine, Medieval
Gynecology
Physicians > Attitudes
Sexism in medicine
Women gynecologists
Women > Health and hygiene
Medicin > historia.
Gynekologi.
Medicine > History.
Gynaecology.
Europe.
Europe
History
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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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