Women as healers : a history of women and medicine /
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| Author / Creator: | Bourdillon, Hilary |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988. |
| Description: | 48 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/926342 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Healing in the ancient world
- 2. Women healers in the middle ages
- 3. Healing in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries
- 4. Witchcraft, magic and medicine
- 5. Everyday medicine in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries
- 6. Midwifery: the growing profession
- 7. Smallpox: the development of inoculation
- 8. Public health in the industrial age
- 9. Medical care in the industrial towns
- 10. Women and doctors in the 19th and 20th centuries
- 11. The effects of war on medicine
- 12. Women in medicine today
