Montserrat Cabre i Pairet is Professor of History of Medicine at the University of Cantabria. His research interests include the history of health practices of women in the Middle Ages t forms of signification, roasted as the study of expressions and representations of secual difference in the biomedical tradition. Since 1986 he is a member of Duoda, Cente Dones Rcerca in Studies of the University of Barcelona.