Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550 /

Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550 / / ed. by Sara Ritchey, Sharon Strocchia.

This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250-1550. By foregrounding gender as an organizing principle of healthcare, the contributors challenge traditional binaries that ahistorically separate care from cure,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Barker, Sheila,
Cabré, Montserrat,
Cersovsky, Eva-Maria,
Cohen-Hanegbi, Naama,
Gruman Martins, Julia,
Kandzha, Iliana,
Nolte, Cordula,
Rider, Catherine,
Ritchey, Sara,
Salmón, Fernando,
Strocchia, Sharon,
Tuten, Belle S.,
Verskin, Sara,
Yasin Atat, Ayman,
HerausgeberIn:
Ritchey, Sara,
Strocchia, Sharon,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Sources of Religious Healing
  • 1 Caring by the Hours. The Psalter as a Gendered Healthcare Technology
  • 2 Female Saints as Agents of Female Healing. Gendered Practices and Patronage in the Cult of St. Cunigunde
  • Part 2. Producing and Transmitting Medical Knowledge
  • 3 Blood, Milk, and Breastbleeding. The Humoral Economy of Women’s Bodies in Medieval Medicine
  • 4 Care of the Breast in the Late Middle Ages. The Tractatus de passionibus mamillarum
  • 5 Household Medicine for a Renaissance Court. Caterina Sforza’s Ricettario Reconsidered
  • 6. Understanding/Controlling the Female Body in Ten Recipes. Print and the Dissemination of Medical Knowledge about Women in the Early Sixteenth Century
  • Part 3. Infirmity and Care
  • 7 Ubi non est mulier, ingemiscit egens? Gendered Perceptions of Care from the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
  • 8 Domestic Care in the Sixteenth Century. Expectations, Experiences, and Practices from a Gendered Perspective
  • 9 Bathtubs as a Healing Approach in Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Medicine
  • Part 4. (In)fertility and Reproduction
  • 10 Gender, Old Age, and the Infertile Body in Medieval Medicine
  • 11 Gender Segregation and the Possibility of Arabo-Galenic Gynecological Practice in the Medieval Islamic World
  • Afterword. Healing Women and Women Healers
  • Contributors
  • Index

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