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Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550
Title
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550 [electronic resource] / edited by Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia.
ISBN
9048544467
9789048544462
Publication
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020.
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations.
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250 to 1550. By foregrounding gender as an organizing principle of healthcare, the contributors challenge traditional binaries that ahistorically separate care from cure, medicine from religion, and domestic healing from fee-for-service medical exchanges. The essays collected here illuminate previously hidden and undervalued forms of healthcare and varieties of body knowledge produced and transmitted outside the traditional settings of university, guild, and academy. They draw on non-traditional sources -- vernacular regimens, oral communications, religious and legal sources, images and objects -- to reveal additional locations for producing body knowledge in households, religious communities, hospices, and public markets. Emphasizing cross-confessional and multilinguistic exchange, the essays also reveal the multiple pathways for knowledge transfer in these centuries. Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550 provides a synoptic view of how gender and cross-cultural exchange shaped medical theory and practice in later medieval and Renaissance societies.
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Project MUSE - 2020 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2020 History.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 06, 2020
Series
Premodern health, disease, and disability ; 3
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Caring by the hours. The psalter as a gendered healthcare technology
Female saints as agents of female healing. Gendered practices and patronage in the cult of St. Cunigunde
Blood, milk, and breastbleeding. The humoral economy of women's bodies in medieval medicine
Care of the breast in the late Middle Ages. the Tractatus de passionibus mamillarum
Household medicine for a Renaissance court. Caterina Sforza's Ricettario reconsidered
Understanding/controlling the female body in ten recipes. Print and the dissemination of medical knowledge about women in the early sixteenth century
Ubi non est mulier, ingemiscit egens? Gendered perceptions of care from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries
Domestic care in the sixteenth century. Expectations, experiences, and practices from a gendered perspective
Bathtubs as a healing approach in fifteenth-century Ottoman medicine
Gender, old age, and the infertile body in medieval medicine
Gender segregation and the possibility of Arabo-Galenic gynecological practice in the medieval Islamic world
Afterword. Healing women and women healers.
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