Description
| Product ID: | 9781911597230 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Women Healers Through History |
| Subtitle: | Revised and Expanded Edition |
| Authors: | Author: Elisabeth Brooke |
| Page Count: | 364 |
| Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women and girls, Complementary and alternative medicine and therapies, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Social & cultural history, Gender studies: women, Complementary medicine |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A powerful exploration of women's role as healers through the ages and their continuing fight for recognition. 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.
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| Imprint Name: | Aeon Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Aeon Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-04-30 |
