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• Winner of Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize 2009.

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[An] excellent new book... Green has painstakingly studied the content and circulation of medieval texts on women's medicine...[and] disproves popular ideas of the Middle Ages as a Golden Age for women's control over their own bodies. Medical History [A]dds welcome new dimensions to our understanding of the processes by which men came to dominate women's medicine. It is essential reading, not just for those engaged in the social history of women's medicine, but for anyone working in the field of the history of medicine. Social History of Medicine Magisterial in scope... Her scrupulous conclusions permit Green to render this history useful as a way of thinking about health in terms of human rights and about the consequences of structures that exclude populations from the production and control of knowledge about their own health care. Joan Cadden, American Historical Review This is a superb volume of medieval and early modern history that will appeal to many audiences, especially those interested in the history of women's medicine. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Green's breadth and depth of knowledge is deeply impressive, and her own authority in the field of the history of women's medicine is unquestionable. This is an outstanding achievement of scholarship, both in terms of the history of medicine, and as a major contribution to feminist literature. The Medieval Review Monica Green's Making Women's Medicine Masculine has done a great service for medical history and has simultaneously opened up a rich vein of material to anyone interested in literacy and gender issues in the Middle Ages. Medieval Feminist Forum Written with all the magisterial clarity, directness, and certainty that has characterised all her work so far...a masterpiece Professor Peter Biller, University of York A major work by the leading authority in the field, the summation of decades of study that has no competitors in print and is unlikely to have any for some time to come Dr Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway, University of London An outstanding book in all ways...a work of superb scholarship Professor Helen King, University of Reading

[An] excellent new book... Green has painstakingly studied the content and circulation of medieval texts on women's medicine...[and] disproves popular ideas of the Middle Ages as a Golden Age for women's control over their own bodies. Medical History [A]dds welcome new dimensions to our understanding of the processes by which men came to dominate women's medicine. It is essential reading, not just for those engaged in the social history of women's medicine, but for anyone working in the field of the history of medicine. Social History of Medicine Magisterial in scope... Her scrupulous conclusions permit Green to render this history useful as a way of thinking about health in terms of human rights and about the consequences of structures that exclude populations from the production and control of knowledge about their own health care. Joan Cadden, American Historical Review This is a superb volume of medieval and early modern history that will appeal to many audiences, especially those interested in the history of women's medicine. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Green's breadth and depth of knowledge is deeply impressive, and her own authority in the field of the history of women's medicine is unquestionable. This is an outstanding achievement of scholarship, both in terms of the history of medicine, and as a major contribution to feminist literature. The Medieval Review Monica Green's Making Women's Medicine Masculine has done a great service for medical history and has simultaneously opened up a rich vein of material to anyone interested in literacy and gender issues in the Middle Ages. Medieval Feminist Forum Written with all the magisterial clarity, directness, and certainty that has characterised all her work so far...a masterpiece Professor Peter Biller, University of York A major work by the leading authority in the field, the summation of decades of study that has no competitors in print and is unlikely to have any for some time to come Dr Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway, University of London An outstanding book in all ways...a work of superb scholarship Professor Helen King, University of Reading

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Monica H. Green is Professor of History at Arizona State University where she holds affiliate appointments in Women's and Gender Studies; Bioethics; and the Program in Social Science and Global Health in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Women's Healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and Contexts, a collection of her major essays, was co-winner of the 2004 John Nicholas Brown Prize for the best first book in medieval studies from the Medieval Academy of America. Her other publications include The 'Trotula': A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine, of which she was both editor and translator.

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