Medical authority and Englishwomen's herbal texts, 1550-1650 / Rebecca Laroche.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laroche, Rebecca
Language:English
Published: Farnham : Ashgate, [2009], ©2009.
Series:Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
Subjects:
English prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English prose literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Herbals > Great Britain > History.
Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 16th century.
Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Women in medicine > Great Britain > History > 16th century.
Women in medicine > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Botany, Medical > Great Britain > History > 16th century.
Botany, Medical > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Local Note:
MSU: errata slip inserted.
Physical Description:xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "This manlike worke of herbes" : gender and the English herbal
  • Inscriptions in herbal texts and the location of medical authority
  • Gentlewomen's herbal readings and the absent-present physicians
  • Isabella Whitney's herbs : print medical texts and London satire.