Women health providers: materials on cures, remedies and sexuality in inquisitorial processes (15th-18th century).

ABSTRACT:

Background

The first inquisitorial trials were against Muslims and Jews. Later, they focused on women, especially caregivers. Progressively, they were linked to witchcraft and sorcery because of their great care, generational and empirical knowledge. The historiography of health in the 15th-18th centuries still has important bibliographical and interpretative gaps in the care provided by women.

Objective

To analyse the care provided by healers as health providers, accused by the Inquisition, justifying the importance of nursing in the diversity of community care in the 15th-18th centuries.

Method

A scoping review was conducted following the Dialectical Structural Model of Care (DSMC). A database search was conducted for the period 2013-2022. Bibliographic and legislat

SUBMITTER: Espina-Jerez B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10364442 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature