Preface
Introduction: literacy, medicine, and gender
1: The gentle hand of a woman? Trota and women's medicine at
Salerno
2: Men's practice of women's medicine in the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries
3: Bruno's paradox: women and literate medicine
4: In a language women understand: the gender of the vernacular
5: Slander and the secrets of women
6: The masculine birth of gynaecology
The medieval legacy: medicine of, for, and by women
Appendix I: medieval and Renaissance owners of Trotula
manuscripts
Printed gynaecological and obstetrical texts, 1474-1600
References
Index of manuscripts cited
General Index
Monica H. Green is Professor of History at Arizona State University
where she holds affiliate appointments in Women's and Gender
Studies; Bioethics; and the Program in Social Science and Global
Health in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Women's
Healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and Contexts, a collection
of her major essays, was co-winner of the 2004 John Nicholas Brown
Prize for the best first book in medieval studies from the
Medieval Academy of America. Her other publications include The
'Trotula': A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine, of which she
was both editor and translator.
`Written with all the magisterial clarity, directness, and
certainty that has characterized all her work so far... a
masterpiece'
Professor Peter Biller, University of York
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