Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1800

1. Introduction
Leigh Whaley

2. The Medieval Contribution
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3. New Medical Regulations and their Impact on Female Healers
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4. Early Modern Notions of Women: Contradictory Views on Women as Healers
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5. Medical Treatises and Texts Written by Women and for Women
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6. Female Midwives and the Medical Profession
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7. The Healing Care of Nurses
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8. The ‘Irregular’ Female Healer in Early Modern Europe: A Variety of Practitioners
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9. Motherly Medicine: Domestic Healers and Apothecaries
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10. The Wise-Woman as Healer: Popular Medicine, Witchcraft and Magic
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11. Epilogue
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Keywords: History, European History, Modern History, Clinical Psychology, History of Medicine, History of Early Modern Europe, Social History