Women healers of the middle ages
Selected aspects of their history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11020548 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William L Minkowski (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 288-295 |
| Publication date | 1992-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.82.2.288 |
| PMID | 1739168 |
| OpenAlex | W2031485464 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 7 |
The stellar role of women as healers during the Middle Ages has received some attention from medical historians but remains little known or appreciated. In the three centuries preceding the Renaissance, this role was heightened by two roughly parallel developments. The first was the evolution of European universities and their professional schools that, for the most part, systematically excluded women as students, thereby creating a legal male monopoly of the practice of medicine. Ineligible as healers, women waged a lengthy battle to maintain their right to care for the sick and injured. The 1322 case of Jacqueline Felicie, one of many healers charged with illegally practicing medicine, raises serious questions about the motives of male physicians in discrediting these women as incompetent and dangerous. The second development was the campaign--promoted by the church and supported by both clerical and civil authorities--to brand women healers as witches. Perhaps the church perceived these women, with their special, often esoteric, healing skills, as a threat to its supremacy in the lives of its parishioners. The result was the brutal persecution of unknown numbers of mostly peasant women
Alternative medicine · Ancient history · Battle · Family medicine · Middle Ages · Peasant · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Religious persecution · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Medicine · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |