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

1. Introduction
Leigh Whaley

2. The Medieval Contribution
Leigh Whaley

3. New Medical Regulations and their Impact on Female Healers
Leigh Whaley

4. Early Modern Notions of Women: Contradictory Views on Women as Healers
Leigh Whaley

5. Medical Treatises and Texts Written by Women and for Women
Leigh Whaley

6. Female Midwives and the Medical Profession
Leigh Whaley

7. The Healing Care of Nurses
Leigh Whaley

8. The ‘Irregular’ Female Healer in Early Modern Europe: A Variety of Practitioners
Leigh Whaley

9. Motherly Medicine: Domestic Healers and Apothecaries
Leigh Whaley

10. The Wise-Woman as Healer: Popular Medicine, Witchcraft and Magic
Leigh Whaley

11. Epilogue
Leigh Whaley

Nyckelord: History, European History, Modern History, Clinical Psychology, History of Medicine, History of Early Modern Europe, Social History