Forgotten healers : women and the pursuit of health in Late Renaissance Italy /
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Author / Creator: | Strocchia, Sharon T., 1951- author. |
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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. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12313740 |
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.