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Introduction: Women, Health, and Healing in Early Modern Europe
- Bulletin of the History of Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 82, Number 1, Spring 2008
- pp. 1-17
- 10.1353/bhm.2008.0024
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Women played substantial roles in health and healing in medieval and early-modern Europe. They have been undercounted in studies that rely upon occupational labels, but when we look at caregiving and bodywork, we can see women providing a broad range of services. Although women often healed in domestic settings, neither female patients nor practitioners should be considered in isolation from larger market forces that shaped men's healing work.