@book {9031,
	title = {Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy},
	year = {2019},
	publisher = {Harvard University Press},
	organization = {Harvard University Press},
	abstract = {In Renaissance Italy women played a more central role in providing health care than historians have thus far acknowledged. Women from all walks of life{\textemdash}from household caregivers and nurses to nuns working as apothecaries{\textemdash}drove the Italian medical economy. In convent pharmacies, pox hospitals, girls{\textquoteright} shelters, and homes, women were practitioners and purveyors of knowledge about health and healing, making significant contributions to early modern medicine.},
	url = {https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674241749},
	author = {Sharon T. Strocchia}
}
