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Author Rankin, Alisha Michelle, author.

Title Panaceia's daughters : noblewomen as healers in early modern Germany / Alisha Rankin.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013].
©2013
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Synthesis : a series in the history of chemistry, broadly construed
Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Noble empirics -- Art written down -- Dorothea of Mansfeld : a mirror and example for rich and poor -- Anna of Saxony and her medical 'handiwork' -- Elisabeth of Rochlitz and the experience of illness.
Summary Panaceia's Daughters provides the first book-length study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicines and recommending them to patients, and many gained widespread fame for their remedies. Turning a common historical argument on its head, Rankin maintains that noblewomen's pharmacy came to prominence not in spite of their gender but because of it. Rankin demonstrates the ways in which noblewomen's pharmacy was bou.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject BMBF-Statusseminar.
Women healers -- Germany -- History -- 16th century.
Women healers.
Germany.
History.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Pharmacy -- Germany -- History -- 16th century.
Pharmacy.
Medicine -- Germany -- History -- 16th century.
Medicine.
Women -- Germany -- History -- 16th century.
Women.
Germany.
Chronological Term 1500-1599
Geschichte 1500-1600
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Rankin, Alisha Michelle. Panaceia's daughters. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013 9780226925387 (DLC) 2012021911 (OCoLC)795020525
ISBN 9780226925394 (electronic book)
0226925390 (electronic book)
0226925390 (e-book)
9780226925387
0226925382
1299311709
9781299311701

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