Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium by Helen King

Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium

Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Helen King

238 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history challenging informative medium-paced
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The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on the diseases of] women, ' a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. This collection was first pu...

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