Abella
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Abella was a mid-14th century Roman[1] physician who taught general medicine at the Salerno school of medicine.[2] She lectured on standard medical practice, bile, and women's health and nature.[1][3] She published two treatises: De atrabile (English: On Melancholia) and De natura seminis humani (English: On the Origin of Human Nature), which did not survive.[2]
[edit] Legacy
Abella is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented as one of the 999 names on the Heritage Floor.[2][3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie. “The” biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. Taylor & Francis US. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-415-92038-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=QmfyK0QtsRAC&pg=PA4. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
- ^ a b c "Abella of Salerno". Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: The Dinner Party: Heritage Floor: Abella of Salerno. Brooklyn Museum. 2007. http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/heritage_floor/abella_of_salerno.php. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
- ^ a b Chicago, 116.
[edit] References
- Chicago, Judy. The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation. London: Merrell (2007). ISBN 1858943701
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