Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500–1800 Safeway recognised

recognised

dismissed and overlooked as a curio

Cultural factors that render women vulnerable to dissatisfying self-relations are identified and analysed and

in different contexts and different periods

Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500–1800 Safeway recognisedSecrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe. As a new fascination with novelty began to take hold from the late fifteenth century, Europeans thirsted for previously unknown details about the natural world: new plants, animals, and other objects from nature, new recipes for medical and alchemical procedures, new knowledge about the human body, and new facts about the way nature worked.