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Sara Ritchey, Sharon Strocchia (eds), Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250 to 1550. By foregrounding gender as an organizing principle of healthcare, the contributors challenge traditional binaries that ahistorically separate care from cure, medicine from religion, and domestic healing from fee-for-service medical exchanges. The essays collected here illuminate previously hidden and undervalued forms of healthcare and varieties of body knowledge produced and transmitted outside the traditional settings of university, guild, and academy. They draw on non-traditional sources -- vernacular regimens, oral communications, religious and legal sources, images and objects -- to reveal additional locations for producing body knowledge in households, religious communities, hospices, and public markets. Emphasizing cross-confessional and multilinguistic exchange, the essays also reveal the multiple pathways for knowledge transfer in these centuries. Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550&#160;provides a synoptic view of how gender and cross-cultural exchange shaped medical theory and practice in later medieval and Renaissance societies.Introduction - Gendering Medieval Health and Healing: New Sources, New Perspectives Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia PART 1: Sources of Religious Healing Caring by the Hours: The Psalter as a Gendered Health care Technology Sara Ritchey Female Saints as Agents of Female Healing: Gendered Practices and Patronage in the Cult of St. CunigundeIliana Kandzha PART 2: Producing and Transmitting Medical Knowledge Blood, Milk and Breastbleeding: The Humoral Economy of Women’s Bodies in Late Medieval MedicineMontserrat Cabré and Fernando Salmón Care of the Breast in the Late Middle Ages: The Tractatus de Passionibus MamillarumBelle S. Tuten Household Medicine for a Renaissance Court: Caterina Sforza’s Ricettario ReconsideredSheila Barker and Sharon Strocchia Understanding/Controlling the Female Body in Ten Recipes: Print and the Dissemination of Medical Knowledge about Women in the Early Sixteenth CenturyJulia Gruman Martins PART 3: Infirmity and Care Ubi non est mulier, ingemiscit egens? Gendered Perceptions of Care from the Thirteenth to Sixteenth CenturiesEva-Maria Cersovsky Domestic Care in the Sixteenth Century: Expectations, Experiences, and Practices from a Gendered Perspective Cordula Nolte Bathtubs as a Healing Approach in Fifteenth-Century Ottoman MedicineAyman Yasin Atat PART 4: (In)fertility and Reproduction Gender, Old Age, and the Infertile Body in Medieval MedicineCatherine Rider Gender Segregation and the Possibility of Arabo-Galenic Gynecological Practice in the Medieval Islamic WorldSara Verskin Afterword: Healing Women and Women HealersNaama Cohen-Hanegbi