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Conceiving Bodies: Reproduction in Early Medieval English Medicine (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)
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Publication Date: June 4th, 2024
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
ISBN:
9781526176882
Pages:
232
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Description
The Old English remedies for women's reproductive ailments gesture to contemporary notions of bodily autonomy. Close examination of the remedies for menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, stillbirth, and abortion reveal distinctions among them, where previously they were understood reductively as women's medicine.