Women healers and physicians : climbing a long hill / Lillian R. Furst, editor.

Other author Furst, Lilian R.
Format Book
Publication InfoLexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1997.
Descriptionvii, 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 noteLaupus-Retained for historical purposes.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96032389
ISBN081310954X :

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