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Author:

Laroche, Rebecca.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xii, 196 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English prose literature--History and criticism.--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.
Medicine in Literature--Great Britain.
History, 16th Century--Great Britain.
History, 17th Century--Great Britain.
Phytotherapy--history--Great Britain.
Plants, Medicinal--Great Britain.
Women--history--Great Britain.

Notes:

Errata slip inserted. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity

ISBN:

0754666786 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780754666783 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)327637313

LCCN:

2009020468

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)