{"product_id":"women-healers-through-history-revised-and-expanded-edition-9781911597230","title":"Women Healers Through History: Revised and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA powerful exploration of women's role as healers through the ages and their continuing fight for recognition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eInformed 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER ONE\u003cbr\u003e Healing in antiquity\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER TWO\u003cbr\u003e Medicine in the early Middle Ages\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER THREE\u003cbr\u003e Trotula of Salerno\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER FOUR\u003cbr\u003e Hildegard of Bingen\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER FIVE\u003cbr\u003e Women physicians in the late Middle Ages\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER SIX\u003cbr\u003e The struggle to practise: women healers under threat\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER SEVEN\u003cbr\u003e Women healers from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER EIGHT\u003cbr\u003e Women enter the profession: the struggles of nineteenth-century women doctors\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER NINE\u003cbr\u003e Persecution through committee\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER TEN\u003cbr\u003e Women shamans and conjurers\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER ELEVEN\u003cbr\u003e Radical resistance—women of colour\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER TWELVE\u003cbr\u003e Twentieth-century pioneers\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER THIRTEEN\u003cbr\u003e Community medicine—pioneering projects\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER FOURTEEN\u003cbr\u003e End of life care\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCONCLUSION\u003cbr\u003e NOTES\u003cbr\u003e RESOURCES\u003cbr\u003e BIBLIOGRAPHY\u003cbr\u003e INDEX\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aeon Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043189850455,"sku":"9781911597230","price":23.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781911597230.jpg?v=1750957351","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-healers-through-history-revised-and-expanded-edition-9781911597230","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}