Witches, Midwives and Nurses : A History of Women Healers
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Book Description
   Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female practitioners and male professionals. This pamphlet explores two important phases in the male takeover of health care: the suppression of witches in medieval Europe and the rise of the male medical profession in the United States. The authors conclude that despite efforts to exclude them, the resurgence of women as healers should be a long-range goal of the women's movement.
From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by FGP
This dandy little booklet quickly and concisely explains why it is that 93% of the doctors in this country are men even though women make up 70% of all healthcare workers. If you assumed that men are the doctors because they were the pioneers of the healing arts, then this booklet will open your eyes. Barbara Ehrenrich and Deirdre English show how, for reasons of class politics, women's suppression and naked greed, wealthy men discredited, persecuted and outright killed the wisewomen healers, leaving themselves to be the sole practitioners of their "scientific" medicine. The information presented here gives a whole new perspective to medical history and points to some of the causes underlying our current healthcare mess.
Witches, Midwives and Nurses : A History of Women Healers
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Glass Mountain Pamphlets),Barbara Ehrenreich,Deirdre English,The Feminist Press at CUNY,0912670134,Gender Studies,General,History,History - General History,Medicine,United States,Women healers,Women in medicine,General practice,Health & Fitness / General,History of medicine,Social history,Women's studies
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