Making Women's Medicine Masculine
The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology
$206.62
- Hardcover
432 pages
- Release Date
20 March 2008
Summary
Making Women’s Medicine Masculine
This study challenges the common belief that men were never involved in women’s healthcare in Europe prior to the eighteenth century. Drawing on a range of sources, from the writings of the twelfth-century practitioner Trota of Salerno to the works of Renaissance male physicians, this book demonstrates how men gradually asserted their authority in diagnosing and treating women’s gynecological and obstetrical conditions, particularly infertility.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199211494 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199211493 |
| Author: | Monica H. Green |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 20 March 2008 |
| Weight: | 797g |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 182mm x 27mm |
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`Written with all the magisterial clarity, directness, and certainty that has characterized all her work so far… a masterpiece’Professor Peter Biller, University of York
About The Author
Monica H. Green
Monica H. Green is Professor of History at Arizona State University where she holds affiliate appointments in Women’s and Gender Studies; Bioethics; and the Program in Social Science and Global Health in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Women’s Healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and Contexts, a collection of her major essays, was co-winner of the 2004 John Nicholas Brown Prize for the best first book in medieval studies from the Medieval Academy of America. Her other publications include The ‘Trotula’: A Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine, of which she was both editor and translator.
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