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

Folger bibliographic ID: 233795
Folger call number: PR113 .L36 2009
Folger holdings ID: 282786

General notes

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

Extended title: Medical authority and Englishwomen's herbal texts, 1550-1650 / Rebecca Laroche

English prose literature Herbals Literature and medicine Women in medicine Botany, Medical

author: Laroche, Rebecca