Forgotten healers women and the pursuit of health in Late Renaissance Italy
In Renaissance Italy women played a more central role in providing health care than historians have thus far acknowledged. Women from all walks of life--from household caregivers and nurses to nuns working as apothecaries--drove the Italian medical economy. In convent pharmacies, pox hospitals, girl...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press 2019 |
| Series: | I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |