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Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800

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  1. Leigh Whaley

    1. Acadia University, Canada

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Leigh Whaley
    Pages 1-6

  3. The Medieval Contribution

    • Leigh Whaley
    Pages 7-25

  4. New Medical Regulations and their Impact on Female Healers

    • Leigh Whaley
    Pages 26-47

  5. Early Modern Notions of Women: Contradictory Views on Women as Healers

    • Leigh Whaley
    Pages 48-67

  6. Medical Treatises and Texts Written by Women and for Women

    • Leigh Whaley
    Pages 68-90

  7. Female Midwives and the Medical Profession

    • Leigh Whaley
    Pages 91-111

  8. The Healing Care of Nurses

    • Leigh Whaley
    Pages 112-130

  9. The ‘Irregular’ Female Healer in Early Modern Europe: A Variety of Practitioners

    • Leigh Whaley
    Pages 131-149

  10. Motherly Medicine: Domestic Healers and Apothecaries

    • Leigh Whaley
    Pages 150-173

  11. The Wise-Woman as Healer: Popular Medicine, Witchcraft and Magic

    • Leigh Whaley
    Pages 174-195

  12. Epilogue

    • Leigh Whaley
    Pages 196-197

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 198-316
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Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.

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'Given the work's broad scope, which encourages readers to think about wider developments over time and across Europe, it is a fine book to assign undergraduates and a handy reference guide for more advanced scholars.' -Social History of Medicine

Authors and Affiliations

  • Acadia University, Canada

    Leigh Whaley

About the author

LEIGH WHALEY Professor of European history at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her research interests range from the French Revolution to Women, Gender and Science and Medicine. She has published books on Napoleon, the French Revolution and a History of Women in Science. Her most recent publication, Clandestine Operations: Odette Sansom and Andrée Borrel, Exemplary Agents of the Special Operations Executive, appeared in Les femmes face à la guerre (French and Francophone Women Facing War), edited by Alison S. Fell (Peter Lang, 2009). She teaches courses in Western Civilization, European Men and Women, and Comparative Revolutions.

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