title: [The female population of the S. Niccolò mental village in Siena].
abstract: The author deals with the population in the Sienese mental hospital (1810-1999) according to the various female presences. So, not only the patients, poor and rich, but also the attendants, the nurses, the matrons, the teachers, the nuns: a complex and never studied female universe.
authors.affiliation: Sezione Storia della Medicina, Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy. vannozzi@unisi.it
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vannozzi
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*