Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 7626
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Rawcliffe , Carole
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  • Title: Women and Medicine: The Midwife and the Nurse
  • Source: Medicine and Society in Later Medieval England.Carole Rawcliffe.  Alan Sutton Publishing, 1995.  Pages 194 - 215.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Book Chapter
  • Subject (See Also): Hospitals Medicine Midwives Nurses Physicians
  • Award Note:
  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: General
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  • Illustrations: Ten illustrations, seven in black and white and the rest in color. Most represent midwives or nursing sisters. One diagram shows the female internal organs and two manuscript illustrations represent male physicians treating women.
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of East Anglia
  • Conference Info: - , -
  • Year of Publication: 1995.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0862995981