Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550
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Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550

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Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550

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Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9789048544462
Edition
1
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia europea medieval

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. List of Figures and Tables
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Introduction
  6. Part 1. Sources of Religious Healing
  7. 1 Caring by the Hours. The Psalter as a Gendered Healthcare Technology
  8. 2 Female Saints as Agents of Female Healing. Gendered Practices and Patronage in the Cult of St. Cunigunde
  9. Part 2. Producing and Transmitting Medical Knowledge
  10. 3 Blood, Milk, and Breastbleeding. The Humoral Economy of Women’s Bodies in Medieval Medicine
  11. 4 Care of the Breast in the Late Middle Ages. The Tractatus de passionibus mamillarum
  12. 5 Household Medicine for a Renaissance Court. Caterina Sforza’s Ricettario Reconsidered
  13. 6. Understanding/Controlling the Female Body in Ten Recipes. Print and the Dissemination of Medical Knowledge about Women in the Early Sixteenth Century
  14. Part 3. Infirmity and Care
  15. 7 Ubi non est mulier, ingemiscit egens? Gendered Perceptions of Care from the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
  16. 8 Domestic Care in the Sixteenth Century. Expectations, Experiences, and Practices from a Gendered Perspective
  17. 9 Bathtubs as a Healing Approach in Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Medicine
  18. Part 4. (In)fertility and Reproduction
  19. 10 Gender, Old Age, and the Infertile Body in Medieval Medicine
  20. 11 Gender Segregation and the Possibility of Arabo-Galenic Gynecological Practice in the Medieval Islamic World
  21. Afterword. Healing Women and Women Healers
  22. Contributors
  23. Index