A new history uncovers the crucial role Women played in the great transformations of medical science and Health care that accompanied the Italian Renaissance.
In convent pharmacies, pox hospitals, girls\' shelters, and homes.
Women from all walks of life--from household caregivers and nurses to nuns working as apothecaries--drove the Italian medical economy.
In Renaissance Italy Women played a more central role in providing Health care than historians have thus far acknowledged.
A new history uncovers the crucial role Women played in the great transformations of medical science and Health care that accompanied the Italian Renaissance