"As [Healthy] Women Should": Enslaved Women, Medical Experts, and "Hidden" Menstrual Disorders in Late Medieval Mediterranean Slave Markets.
Expanding the discussion highlighting the role of slavery in the production of medical knowledge beyond the much more extensively studied Atlantic world and the nineteenth-century US South, this article explores the exploitation of enslaved women's bodies as clinical subjects in fifteenth-century Ib...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 128; no. 4; pp. 1558 - 1587 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2023
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