Virtuous and wise: apprehending female medical practice from Hebrew texts on women’s health care Caballero Navas, Carmen In this article, I analyse the attribution of remedies and therapeutic procedures to women, anonymous in the main, embedded in a number of texts belonging to the medieval Hebrew corpus of literature on women's health care. By suggesting a classification of the ways in which both women and their healing activities are referred to, I intend to offer a framework that helps to identify Jewish (and non-Jewish) women's health agency from medical texts. In addition to textual analysis, I compare some of the mentions with evidences found in a variety of historical and literary sources for the sake of helping to contextualise them. In this article, I analyse the attribution of remedies and therapeutic procedures to women, anonymous in the main, embedded in a number of texts belonging to the medieval Hebrew corpus of literature on women's health care. By suggesting a classification of the ways in which both women and their healing activities are referred to, I intend to offer a framework that helps to identify Jewish (and non-Jewish) women's health agency from medical texts. In addition to textual analysis, I compare some of the mentions with evidences found in a variety of historical and literary sources for the sake of helping to contextualise them. 2025-01-27T11:26:01Z 2025-01-27T11:26:01Z 2019-11 journal article Social History of Medicine, 32(4), 691-711, Special Cluster: Learning Practice from Texts: Jews and Medicine in the Later Middle Ages (Editado por N. Cohen-Hanegbi) 0951-631X https://hdl.handle.net/10481/100533 10.1093/shm/hkz025 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Oxford University Press