Susan Broomhall

Women's medical work in early modern France (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Women have long been crucial to the provision of medical services, both in the treatment of sickness and in maintaining health. In this study, Susan Broomhall situates the practices and perceptions of women's medical work in France in the context of the sixteenth century and its medical evolution and innovations. She argues that early modern understandings of medical practice and authority were highly flexible and subject to change. She furthermore examines how a focus on female practitioners, who cut across most sectors of early modern medical practice, can reveal the multifaceted phenomenon of these negotiations for authority.

This new paperback edition of Women's medical work in early modern France skilfully combines detailed research with a clear presentation of the existing literature of women's medical work, making it invaluable to students of gender and medical history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526185655
• Artikelnr.: 72333324

Autorenporträt

Susan Broomhall is Winthrop Professor of Early Modern History at The University of Western Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Notes on text Introduction 1. Women and the medical guilds
2. The university: women and the Faculty of Medicine in Paris 3. Hospital
nursing by women religious: the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris 4. Female healing
before the law 5. The book trades: female medical practice in print 6.
Nursing, caring, curing: women's work in municipal child care 7. The world
of the court: women serving the royal family 8. French women and
reproductive knowledge at the Spanish court 9. Elite women and reproductive
knowledge: the Nassau sisters Afterword Bibliography Index