Women's medical work in early modern France / Susan Broomhall.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2004.

viii, 288 pages ; 22 cm.

1st paperback ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-280) and index.

Women and the medical guilds -- The university: women and the Faculty of Medicine in Paris -- Hospital nursing by women religious: the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris -- Female healing before the law -- The book trades: female medical practice in print -- Nursing, caring, curing: women's work in municipal child care -- The world of the court: women serving the royal family -- French women and reproductive knowledge at the Spanish court -- Elite women and reproductive knowledge: the Nassau sisters.