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Acts of care : recovering women in late Medieval health / Sara Ritchey.

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: 1 online resourceISBN:
  • 9781501753541
  • 9781501753558
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Acts of careDDC classification:
  • 610.9/02 23
LOC classification:
  • R141
Online resources:
Contents:
Translating care: the circulation of healing stories -- Bedside comforts: the social organization of care -- Empirical bodies: competing theories of therapeutic authority -- Rhythmic medicine: the psalter as a therapeutic technology in Beguine communities -- Salutary words: saints' lives as efficacious texts in Cistercian women's abbeys.
Summary: "Brings together the histories of European medicine, gender, and Christianity to re-embed women's participation in medieval healthcare. Using devotional manuscripts, hagiographical texts, liturgy, poetry, and medical treatises, it reveals the healthcare knowledge and caregiving practices of Cistercian nuns and beguines in the late medieval Lowlands"--
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E-Books E-Books KMTC:VIHIGA CAMPUS R141 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Not for loan muse.jhu-edu/book/83

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translating care: the circulation of healing stories -- Bedside comforts: the social organization of care -- Empirical bodies: competing theories of therapeutic authority -- Rhythmic medicine: the psalter as a therapeutic technology in Beguine communities -- Salutary words: saints' lives as efficacious texts in Cistercian women's abbeys.

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"Brings together the histories of European medicine, gender, and Christianity to re-embed women's participation in medieval healthcare. Using devotional manuscripts, hagiographical texts, liturgy, poetry, and medical treatises, it reveals the healthcare knowledge and caregiving practices of Cistercian nuns and beguines in the late medieval Lowlands"--

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