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In contradiction with the exclusion of women from universities, where medical knowledge was passed on, women were supposed to practise medical activities for their family, and in the hospitals as nurses all over Europe. A specifically female activity of care was wet nursing, an occupation that represented an important resource for women, in orphanages, as well in private houses. Wet nursing was organised and controlled by specific institutions in European cities.
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ASVE: Compilazione Leggi, Prima serie (Venice State Archives: Collection of laws, First series, b. 47, cc. 242v e 243).
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ASVE: Compilazione Leggi, Prima serie (Venice State Archives: Collection of laws, First series, b. 47, c. 633).
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Bellavitis, A. (2018). Caring and Feeding. In: Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96541-3_9
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