Forgotten healers : women and the pursuit of health in Late Renaissance Italy /

Forgotten healers : women and the pursuit of health in Late Renaissance Italy /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Strocchia, Sharon T., 1951- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
Description:	1 online resource ( xi, 330 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
Subject:	Women healers -- Italy -- History -- 16th century. Women healers -- Italy -- History -- 17th century. Women in medicine -- Italy -- History -- 16th century. Women in medicine -- Italy -- History -- 17th century. Medical care -- Italy -- History -- 16th century. Medical care -- Italy -- History -- 17th century. Medicine -- Italy -- History -- 16th century. Medicine -- Italy -- History -- 17th century. Medical care. Medicine. Women healers. Women in medicine. Italy.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12313740

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ISBN:	9780674243446 0674243447 9780674241749 0674241746
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Strocchia, Sharon T., 1951- Forgotten healers. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019 9780674241749

Table of Contents:

The politics of health at the early Medici court
Gifts of health: medical exchanges between court and convent
The business of health: convent pharmacies in Renaissance Italy
Agents of health: nun apothecaries and ways of knowing
Restoring health: care and cure in Renaissance pox hospitals.