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.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellows' Publications]) ([ACL S Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Gynecology-- History-- To 1500. Women-- Health and hygiene-- History-- To 1500. Physicians-- Attitudes-- History-- To 1500. Women gynecologists-- History-- To 1500. Sexism in medicine.