title: [The 'feminine' in the history of medical didactics].
abstract: Women are present in the 'long' history of medicine both as patients and as healers specialising in curing and caring. The nowadays existing attempt to define a female specific medical knowledge (discussing, for instance, the quality of a supposed 'female' cultural and professional training; the role of women in medical research as well as in discussing bioethical subjects; the relationship between women-physicians and other medical professionals; the female approach to important bioethical issues such as euthanasy, 'therapeutical fury' for the incurable sick, female genital mutilations) is here analyzed in a broader historical context.
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", I.
authors.forename: Luigia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Melillo
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D006666:History of Medicine; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D010822:Physicians, Women / Q000145:classification / Q000266:history*; D013038:Specialization