Medical authority and Englishwomen's herbal texts, 1550-1650 / Rebecca Laroche.

Farnham : Ashgate, [2009], ©2009.

xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This manlike worke of herbes" : gender and the English herbal -- Inscriptions in herbal texts and the location of medical authority -- Gentlewomen's herbal readings and the absent-present physicians -- Isabella Whitney's herbs : print medical texts and London satire.