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Women Have Long Been Crucial To The Provision Of Medical Services, Both In The Treatment Of Sickness And In Maintaining Health. In This Study, Susan Broomhall Situates The Practices And Perceptions Of Women's Medical Work In France In The Context Of The Sixteenth Century And Its Medical Evolution And Innovations. She Argues That Early Modern Understandings Of Medical Practice And Authority Were Highly Flexible And Subject To Change. She Furthermore Examines How A Focus On Female Practitioners, Who Cut Across Most Sectors Of Early Modern Medical Practice, Can Reveal The Multifaceted Phenomenon Of These Negotiations For Authority.--book Jacket. Women And The Medical Guilds -- The University: Women And The Faculty Of Medicine In Paris -- Hospital Nursing By Women Religious: The Hôtel-dieu In Paris -- Female Healing Before The Law -- The Book Trades: Female Medical Practice In Print -- Nursing, Caring, Curing: Women's Work In Municipal Child Care -- The World Of The Court: Women Serving The Royal Family -- French Women And Reproductive Knowledge At The Spanish Court -- Elite Women And Reproductive Knowledge: The Nassau Sisters. Susan Broomhall. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 2

Author

Broomhall, Susan

Publisher

Manchester ; New York: Manchester University Press ; New York: Distributed in the USA by Palgrave

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780719062865

Subjects

Medical, History, Medicine

Updated

2026-03-24