The Medieval contribution -- New medical regulations and their impact on female healers -- Early modern notions of women: contradictory views on women as healers -- Medical treatises and texts written by women and for women -- Female midwives and the medical profession -- The healing care of nurses -- The "Irregular" female healer in early modern Europe: a variety of practitioners -- Motherly medicine: domestic healers and apothecaries -- The wise-woman as healer: popular medicine, witchcraft and magic.
In this book, the author examines the role of women and their relationship to medicine, including their contributions as well as the challenges they faced in early modern France, Italy, Spain, and England between 1400 and 1800.