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Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine

Contributor(s): Green, Monica H (Editor), Green, Monica H (Translator)

ISBN: 9780812235890

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Pub Date: April 16, 2001

Dewey: 618.0902

LCCN: 00047945

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Dust Cover, Illustrated

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.88" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.38 lbs) 320 pages

Series: Middle Ages

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This long-awaited book makes available . . . the most important collection of material on women's diseases and their treatments for the period from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries.--Social History of Medicine

Review Quotes: "Specialists and more general readers will find here rigorous and satisfying answers to questions about medieval medicine, women's health, women's learning and practical traditions, and about the convergence of classical, Arabic, and local knowledge."-- "Joan Cadden, University of California, Davis"

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