Book Review

摘要

Recent years have seen an increase in studies of the lived experience of early modern health care, and of the strategies of women who navigated the ostensibly male domain of therapeutics. It has become clear that, despite their formal exclusion from the practice of professional medicine, seventeenth-century women played a crucial role in managing health and administering therapeutics at the household level. Anne Stobart’s illuminating new study provides a window onto a world of domestic health care which has until recently been obscured from view.