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Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550
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Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550
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Yes, you can access Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550 by Sara Ritchey,Sharon Strocchia, Sara Ritchey, Sharon Strocchia in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & European Renaissance History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1. Sources of Religious Healing
- 1 Caring by the Hours. The Psalter as a Gendered Healthcare Technology
- 2 Female Saints as Agents of Female Healing. Gendered Practices and Patronage in the Cult of St. Cunigunde
- Part 2. Producing and Transmitting Medical Knowledge
- 3 Blood, Milk, and Breastbleeding. The Humoral Economy of Women’s Bodies in Medieval Medicine
- 4 Care of the Breast in the Late Middle Ages. The Tractatus de passionibus mamillarum
- 5 Household Medicine for a Renaissance Court. Caterina Sforza’s Ricettario Reconsidered
- 6. Understanding/Controlling the Female Body in Ten Recipes. Print and the Dissemination of Medical Knowledge about Women in the Early Sixteenth Century
- Part 3. Infirmity and Care
- 7 Ubi non est mulier, ingemiscit egens? Gendered Perceptions of Care from the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
- 8 Domestic Care in the Sixteenth Century. Expectations, Experiences, and Practices from a Gendered Perspective
- 9 Bathtubs as a Healing Approach in Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Medicine
- Part 4. (In)fertility and Reproduction
- 10 Gender, Old Age, and the Infertile Body in Medieval Medicine
- 11 Gender Segregation and the Possibility of Arabo-Galenic Gynecological Practice in the Medieval Islamic World
- Afterword. Healing Women and Women Healers
- Contributors
- Index