Social Perception of Infertility and Its Treatment in Late Medieval Italy: Margherita Datini, an Italian Merchant’s Wife
Because the perception of infertility in medieval Europe ranged from the extremely religious view of it as a malediction of God or the devil’s work, to the reasonable medical conception of it as a sort of disease to treat, it is very difficult to determine the general attitudes of ordinary people to...
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Korean Society for the History of Medicine
2016-12-01
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Online Access: | http://www.medhist.or.kr/upload/pdf/kjmh-25-3-519.pdf |