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Strocchia, Sharon T., Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy, Cambridge (MA), Harvard University Press (I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history Book, 24), 2019, 352 pp.
- Resum
- This book uncovers the crucial role women played in the great transformations of medical science and health care that accompanied the Italian Renaissance. In Renaissance Italy women played a more central role in providing health care than historians have thus far acknowledged. Women from all walks of life—from household caregivers and nurses to nuns working as apothecaries—drove the Italian medical economy. In convent pharmacies, pox hospitals, girls' shelters, and homes, women were practitioners and purveyors of knowledge about health and healing, making significant contributions to early modern medicine. The book offers a wealth of new evidence about how illness was diagnosed and treated, whether by noblewomen living at court or poor nurses living in hospitals. It finds that women expanded on their roles as health care providers by participating in empirical work and the development of scientific knowledge. Nuns, in particular, were among the most prominent manufacturers and vendors of pharmaceutical products. Their experiments with materials and techniques added greatly to the era's understanding of medical care. Thanks to their excellence in medicine urban Italian women had greater access to commerce than perhaps any other women in Europe. Forgotten Healers provides a more accurate picture of the pursuit of health in Renaissance Italy. More broadly, by emphasizing that the frontlines of medical care are often found in the household and other spaces thought of as female, the author encourages us to rethink the history of medicine. -- Sharon T. Strocchia is Professor of History at Emory University. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of Renaissance Italy, gender and sexuality in early modern Europe, and the history of health and medicine. Her most recent book, Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence, won the Marraro Prize for the best book on Italian history from the American Catholic Historical Association.
Contents:
* Introduction
* 1. The Politics of Health at the Early Medici Court
* 2. Gifts of Health: Medical Exchanges between Court and Convent
* 3. The Business of Health: Convent Pharmacies in Renaissance Italy
* 4. Agents of Health: Nun Apothecaries and Ways of Knowing
* 5. Restoring Health: Care and Cure in Renaissance Pox Hospitals
* Conclusion
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Farmacologia
Hospitals
Dones
Església - Ordes religiosos
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
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