1993
DOI: 10.1179/exm.1993.5.2.239
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Women and Medicine in Medieval French Narrative

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“…Ultimately, and here very much in line with medieval and early modern ideas, Steiner suggests that human beings are profoundly and essentially determined by the cooperating and intersecting forces of macrocosm and microcosm (199)(200). A plant reveals itself to us as a being which, like man, is not subject entirely to physical and chemical laws; it follows these only when it dies" (187).…”
Section: Pre-modern Perspectives and Alternative/ Integrative Medimentioning
confidence: 92%
“…Ultimately, and here very much in line with medieval and early modern ideas, Steiner suggests that human beings are profoundly and essentially determined by the cooperating and intersecting forces of macrocosm and microcosm (199)(200). A plant reveals itself to us as a being which, like man, is not subject entirely to physical and chemical laws; it follows these only when it dies" (187).…”
Section: Pre-modern Perspectives and Alternative/ Integrative Medimentioning
confidence: 92%
“…É claro que não convém aqui esmiuçar tal campo, mas apontar algumas características importantes sobre tal associação do feminino à prática da medicina. Peggy McCracken (1993), em um importante artigo que elenca os caminhos historiográficos desta associação e suas representações nos romans, nos revela que, de forma geral, as práticas médicas exercidas pelas mulheres eram comumente vistas enquanto superstição (MCCRACKEN, 1993, p. 253-254). Embora a conotação negativa das práticas de curas exercida pelas mulheres somente ganhe fôlego por volta do século XIV (quando a associação com a bruxaria e práticas diabólicas começam a se tornam lugares comuns do feminino) (DOGGETT, 2009, p. 111-112), às mulheres já são atribuídos os papéis de exímias conhecedoras de "poções mágicas", ao menos nos romans (MCCRACKEN, 1993, p. 242).…”
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