books.google.it - "Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia" tells the hidden history of healing practitioners. Since ancient times, and in every human society, women have played a critical, if unheralded, role in the practice and progress of the medical arts and sciences. From the 11th century German nun Hildegarde of Bingen...http://books.google.it/books/about/Women_in_medicine.html?hl=it&id=QtZtkf35CF0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareWomen in medicine