University Press of Kentucky
Edition Details: Furst, Lilian R., editor.
Physical Details: vii + 274 pp.; notes; index
Description Contents: Stoudt, Debra L.: Medieval German women and the power of healing. Nenno, Nancy P.: Between magic and medicine: Medieval images of the woman healer. Zago, Esther: Women, medicine, and the law in Boccaccio's Decameron. Solomon, Michael: Women healers and the power of disease in late medieval Spain. Kerwin, William: Where have you gone, Margaret Kennix? Seeking the tradition of healing women in English Renaissance drama. Kester, Gunilla T.: The blues, healing, and cultural representation in contemporary African-American women's literature. Parker, Holt T.: Women doctors in Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire. Meyer, Paulette: They met in Zurich: Nineteenth-century German and Russian women physicians. Morantz-Sanchez, Regina: The making of a woman surgeon: How Mary Dixon Jones made a name for herself in 19th-century gynecology. Bashford, Alison: Separatist health: Changing meanings of women's hospitals in Australia and England, c. 1870-1920. Furst, Lilian R.: Halfway up the hill: Doctresses in late 19th-century American fiction. Nettels, Elsa: “Leaving the private house”: Women doctors in Virginia Woolf's life and art.
Review More, E. (1998) Review of "Women healers and physicians: Climbing a long hill". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 791-92).
Review Bonner, T.N. (1998) Review of "Women healers and physicians: Climbing a long hill". Medical History (pp. 269-70).
Review Cocks, G. (1998) Review of "Women healers and physicians: Climbing a long hill". Journal of Interdisciplinary History (pp. 476-77).
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