Women Healers Through History

Revised and Expanded Edition

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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A powerful exploration of women's role as healers through the ages and their continuing fight for recognition.This expanded and updated edition of the classic 1993 title, traces a lineage that spans the centuries in a revisionist history that celebrates women in medicine from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome through to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the present day.Drawing on primary sources, the lives of revolutionary healers are explored in this comprehensive overview - from Trotula to Hildegard von Bingen, Mary Seacole to Wendy Savage.Informed by the author's appreciation of the politics of medicine, this revised edition features brand-new sections on community medicine; indigenous healers; end-of-life care and twentieth-century pioneers such as Rosemary Gladstar, Ina May Gaskin and Louise Hay.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-04-30
Mått129 x 198 x 29 mm
Vikt410 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor364
FörlagAeon Books Ltd
ISBN9781911597230

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Elisabeth Brooke qualified as a Medical Herbalist with the National Institute of Medical Herbalists in 1980. She has a private practice in London and teaches and lectures worldwide. She teaches workshops all over the world, teaching subjects such as herbalism and astrology. She is a guest tutor at Heartwood School of Herbal Medicine and has also tutored in Medical Astrology for the Company and produced articles for their Magazine. Elisabeth has a BA (Hons,) in Classical Studies and is studying for a MA, looking a Greek creation myths.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER ONEHealing in antiquityCHAPTER TWOMedicine in the early Middle AgesCHAPTER THREETrotula of SalernoCHAPTER FOURHildegard of BingenCHAPTER FIVEWomen physicians in the late Middle AgesCHAPTER SIXThe struggle to practise: women healers under threatCHAPTER SEVENWomen healers from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuryCHAPTER EIGHTWomen enter the profession: the struggles of nineteenth-century women doctorsCHAPTER NINEPersecution through committeeCHAPTER TENWomen shamans and conjurersCHAPTER ELEVENRadical resistance—women of colourCHAPTER TWELVETwentieth-century pioneersCHAPTER THIRTEENCommunity medicine—pioneering projectsCHAPTER FOURTEENEnd of life careCONCLUSIONNOTESRESOURCESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX