Making women's medicine masculine the rise of male authority in pre-modern gynaecology - Green, Monica Helen; American Council of Learned Societies (Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [358]-384) and indexes.
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Keywords: Gynecology -- History -- To 1500.; Women -- Health and hygiene -- History -- To 1500.; Physicians -- Attitudes -- History -- To 1500.; Women gynecologists -- History -- To 1500.; Sexism in medicine