Description
Book SynopsisA 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.
Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
Healing in antiquity
CHAPTER TWO
Medicine in the early Middle Ages
CHAPTER THREE
Trotula of Salerno
CHAPTER FOUR
Hildegard of Bingen
CHAPTER FIVE
Women physicians in the late Middle Ages
CHAPTER SIX
The struggle to practise: women healers under threat
CHAPTER SEVEN
Women healers from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century
CHAPTER EIGHT
Women enter the profession: the struggles of nineteenth-century women doctors
CHAPTER NINE
Persecution through committee
CHAPTER TEN
Women shamans and conjurers
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Radical resistance—women of colour
CHAPTER TWELVE
Twentieth-century pioneers
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Community medicine—pioneering projects
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
End of life care
CONCLUSION
NOTES
RESOURCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
