The book of madness and cures
Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th-century Venice: a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entrée to this all-male profession, and inspired in her a shared mission to understand the secrets of the human body. Then her father disappears and Gabriella fac...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Waterville, Maine :
Thorndike Press,
2012, ©2012.
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| Series: | Thorndike Press large print historical fiction
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| Summary: | Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th-century Venice: a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entrée to this all-male profession, and inspired in her a shared mission to understand the secrets of the human body. Then her father disappears and Gabriella faces a crisis: she is no longer permitted to treat her patients without her father's patronage. So she sets out across Europe to find where - and why - he has gone. |
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| Physical Description: | 505 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781410449412 (hardcover) 1410449416 (hardcover) |