Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long HillLilian R. Furst University Press of Kentucky, 1 gen 1999 - 272 pagine In this provocative anthology of twelve essays, historians and literary scholars explore the work of women as healers and physicians. The essays range across centuries, nations, and cultures to focus on the ideological and practical obstacles women have faced in the world of medicine. Each examines the situation of women healers in a particular time and place through cases that are emblematic of larger issues and controversies in that period. |
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BETWEEN MAGIC AND MEDICINE | 11 |
Medieval German Women and the Power of Healing | 13 |
Between Magic and Medicine | 43 |
Women Medicine and the Law in Boccaccios Decameron | 64 |
Women Healers and the Power to Disease in Late Medieval Spain | 79 |
Where Have You Gone Margaret Kennix? Seeking the Tradition of Healing Women in English Renaissance Drama | 93 |
The Blues Healing and Cultural Representation in Contemporary African American Womens Literature | 114 |
THE EMERGENCE OF PROFESSIONALISM | 129 |
They Met in Zürich NineteenthCentury German and Russian Women Physicians | 151 |
The Making of a Women Surgeon How Mary Dixon Jones Made a Name for Herself in NineteenthCentury Gynecology | 178 |
Separatist Health Changing Meanings of Womens Hospitals in Australia and England c 18701920 | 198 |
Halfway Up the Hill Doctresses in Late NineteenthCentury American Fiction | 221 |
Leaving the Private House Women Doctors in Virginia Woolfs Life and Art | 239 |
Notes on Contributors | 259 |
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Women Doctors in Greece Rome and the Byzantine Empire | 131 |
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