Gender, health, and healing, 1250-1550
This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250-1550. By foregrounding gender as an organizing principle of healthcare, the contributors challenge traditional binaries that ahistorically separate care from cure,...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
2020.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Premodern health, disease, and disability ; 3. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4469670x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
