Book ID: CBB187788729

Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy (2019)

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Strocchia, Sharon T. (Author)


Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 353
Language: English

In Renaissance Italy women from all walks of life played a central role in health care and the early development of medical science. Observing that the frontlines of care are often found in the household and other spaces thought of as female, Sharon Strocchia encourages us to rethink women’s place in the history of medicine.

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Review Tessa Storey (2021) Review of "Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (pp. 480-482). unapi

Review Jennifer F. Kosmin (2021) Review of "Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 106-108). unapi

Review Cynthia Klestinec (2022) Review of "Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 57-60). unapi

Review Douglas Biow (2021) Review of "Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy". Journal of Interdisciplinary History (pp. 476-478). unapi

Review Hannah Marcus (2020) Review of "Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 873-874). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Park, Katharine
Safua Akeli Amaama
Hicks, Hannah Katherine
Calvo-Calvo, Manuel-Ángel
Brandt, Susan Hanket
Zahedi, Shahrzad
Concepts
Women in medicine
Medicine and gender
Medicine and society
Healers
Health care
Medicine
Time Periods
Renaissance
Medieval
19th century
16th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Italy
France
Europe
Samoa
Southern states (U.S.)
England
Institutions
Royal College of Surgeons, London
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