Panaceia's daughters : noblewomen as healers in early modern Germany /

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Author / Creator:	Rankin, Alisha Michelle, author.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013]. ©2013
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Synthesis : a series in the history of chemistry, broadly construed Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
Subject:	Women healers -- Germany -- History -- 16th century. Pharmacy -- Germany -- History -- 16th century. Medicine -- Germany -- History -- 16th century. Women -- Germany -- History -- 16th century. Medicine, Traditional -- history. Women -- history. History of Medicine. History of Pharmacy. History, 16th Century. Social Class -- history. Medicine. Pharmacy. Women. Women healers. Germany. Germany. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11175847

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ISBN:	9780226925394 0226925390 0226925390 9780226925387 0226925382 1299311709 9781299311701
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. English. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	Panaceia's Daughters provides the first book-length study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicines and recommending them to patients, and many gained widespread fame for their remedies. Turning a common historical argument on its head, Rankin maintains that noblewomen's pharmacy came to prominence not in spite of their gender but because of it. Rankin demonstrates the ways in which noblewomen's pharmacy was bou.
Other form:	Print version: Rankin, Alisha Michelle. Panaceia's daughters. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013 9780226925387

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