Women healers and physicians : climbing a long hill / Lillian R. Furst, editor.
| Other author | Furst, Lilian R. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1997. |
| Description | vii, 274 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Spine title | Women healers & physicians |
| Contents | Medieval German women and the power of healing / Debra L. Stoudt -- Between magic and medicine : Medieval images of the woman healer / Nancy P. Nenno -- Women, medicine and the law in Boccaccio's Decameron / Esther Zago -- Women healers and the power to disease in late Medieval Spain / Michael Solomon -- Where have you gone, Margaret Kennix? Seeking the tradition of healing women in English Renaissance drama / William Kerwin -- The blues, healing and cultural representation in contemporary African-American women's literature / Gunilla T. Kester -- Women doctors in Greece, Rome and the Byzantine Empire / Holt T. Parker -- They met in Zurich : nineteenth-century German and Russian women physicians / Paulette Meyer -- The making of a woman surgeon : how Mary Dixon Jones made a name for herself in nineteenth-century gynecology / Regina Morantz-Sanchez -- Separatist health : changing meanings of women's hospitals in Australia and England, c. 1870-1920 / Alison Bashford -- Halfway up the hill : doctresses in late nineteenth-century American fiction / Lilian R. Furst -- "Leaving the private house" : women doctors in Virginia Woolf's life and art / Elsa Nettels. |
| Local note | Laupus-Retained for historical purposes. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 96032389 |
| ISBN | 081310954X : |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Laupus | Books - Stacks | WZ 80.5 W5 W872P 1997 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |