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Head of a Serpent, a Pinch of Rue

Women, Indigenous Pharmacology, and the Patriarchy of French Colonizing Science in Morocco

Ellen Amster
History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, July 2022, 63 (2) 195-222; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/hopp.63.2.195
Ellen Amster
Hannah Unit in the History of Medicine and Medical Humanities at McMaster University;
Roles: Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine and Director
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vol. 63 no. 2 195-222
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3368/hopp.63.2.195
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University of Wisconsin Press
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2694-3034
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2694-3042
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  • Published online July 25, 2022.
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  1. Ellen Amster, Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine and Director
  1. Hannah Unit in the History of Medicine and Medical Humanities at McMaster University; amstere{at}mcmaster.ca
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    • “My Mother Prepared Those for Us”: Galenic Pharmacology and Women’s Medical Mediation in Morocco
    • Le Rite et L’Outil: French Pharmaceutical Bioprospecting in “Women’s Sorcery”
    • The Frenchwoman as Ethnographer of Moroccan Women’s Pharmacology
    • Crime and Female Villainy in the Toxicology Laboratory of Dr. Charnot
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