«Be unto me as a precious ointment.: Lady Grace Mildmay, Sixteenth-Century Female Practitioner
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Wynne Hellwarth, JenniferEditorial
Universidad de Granada
Date
1999Referencia bibliográfica
Wynne Hellwarth, Jennifer. «Be unto me as a precious ointment : lady Grace Mildmay, sixteenth-century female practitioner». Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam, 1999, Vol. 19, p. 95-117, https://raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/article/view/106144.
Résumé
Lady Grace Mildmay's manuscripts represent an unusual presentation of three
interrelated areas of family, devotion, and medicine. By examining her autobiography,
meditations, and medical papers, 1 draw together literary analysis and discourses of
female devotional and social practices with that of medical discourses to illustrate the
ways in which women practitioners may have acquired and disseminated medical knowledge,
and interacted with their patients, as well as how Lady Mildmay, and presumably other
landed women practitioners, formed a textual community of women who administered
medical treatment to lay people in late sixteenth-century England.