Medical authority and Englishwomen's herbal texts, 1550-1650 /
[Book]
Rebecca Laroche.
[Place of publication not identified] :
Routledge,
2016.
1 online resource (208 pages)
Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
"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.
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Ingram Content Group
9781351918794
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Botany, Medical-- Great Britain-- History-- 17th century.
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Literature and medicine-- Great Britain-- History-- 16th century.
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Women in medicine-- Great Britain-- History-- 16th century.
Women in medicine-- Great Britain-- History-- 17th century.