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  • Record Number: 9613
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Weiss-Amer , Melitta.
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  • Title: Dietetics of Pregnancy: A Fifteenth Century Perspective [The author examines a text by Heinrich von Laufenberg, a German cleric, who took the European learned tradition of medicine and adapted it to the purposes of the Church. Heinrich emphasized the importance of both mother and child but maintained that the pregnant woman needed male advice. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Fifteenth Century Studies 19, ( 1992): Pages 301 - 318.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Gynecology Heinrich von Laufenberg, Cleric and Author- Regimen Literature- Verse Medicine Nutrition Pregnancy
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  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 15
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Western Ontario
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  • Year of Publication: 1992.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 01640933