Laurinda S Dixon, Perilous chastity: women and illness in pre-Enlightenment art and medicine, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1995, pp. xvi, 297, illus., £42.00, $55.00 (hardback 0-8014-3026-7); £17.50, $22.50 (paperback 0-8014-8215-1).
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Perilous chastity: women and illness in pre-Enlightenment art and medicine
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical History
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0025-7273,2048-8343
DOI: 10.1017/s0025727300061743