Green, Monica Helen.

Making women's medicine masculine the rise of male authority in pre-modern gynaecology / [electronic resource] : Monica H. Green. - Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xx, 409 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - ACLS Fellows' publications. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [358]-384) and indexes.

The gentle hand of a woman? Trota and women's medicine at Salerno -- Men's practice of women's medicine in the thirteenth and fourteenth ce nturies -- Bruno's paradox: women and literate medicine -- In a languag e women understand: the gender of the vernacular -- Slander and the sec rets of women -- The masculine birth of gynaecology.


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Ann Arbor, Mich. :
University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing,
2014.
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Gynecology-- History-- To 1500.
Women-- Health and hygiene-- History-- To 1500.
Physicians-- Attitudes-- History-- To 1500.
Women gynecologists-- History-- To 1500.
Sexism in medicine.