Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy

(Part of the I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History Series)

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Winner of the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize

A new history 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674241746

ISBN13:9780674241749

Release Date:December 2019

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.54 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy

(Part of the I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History Series)

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