Title Making women's medicine masculine : the rise of male authority in pre-modern gynaecology / Monica H. Green.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	RG51 .G74 2008	DUE 05-10-24	---

Description	409 pages : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The gentle hand of a woman? Trota and women's medicine at Salerno -- Men's practice of women's medicine in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- Bruno's paradox : women and literate medicine -- In a language women understand : the gender of the vernacular -- Slander and the secrets of women -- The masculine birth of gynaecology.
Subject	Gynecology -- History -- To 1500.
	Gynecology.
	History.
Chronological Term	To 1500
Subject	Women -- Health and hygiene -- History -- To 1500.
	Women -- Health and hygiene.
	Physicians -- Attitudes -- History -- To 1500.
	Physicians -- Attitudes.
	Women gynecologists -- History -- To 1500.
	Women gynecologists.
	Sexism in medicine -- History -- To 1500.
	Sexism in medicine.
	Women.
	Womyn.
ISBN	9780199211494 alkaline paper
	0199211493 alkaline paper