Midwifery and Medicine in Early Modern France: Louise Bourgeois
- ISBN-10
- 0859894711
- ISBN-13
- 9780859894715
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 170
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press
- Authors
- Louise Bourgeois, Wendy Perkins
Description
An account of the work, writings and career of Louise Bourgeois, who had a flourishing midwifery practice at the French royal court at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Bourgeois was notable as a successful and articulate woman practitioner and author. Perkins, who is an expert on French literature, has integrated into her account recent work of social historians on medicine: on the medical market place, on patient-doctor relations, especially between women and medical practitioners, and on the social construction of the body.
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