Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers

Description

“Women have always been healers. They were the unlicensed doctors and anatomists of western history. They were abortionists, nurses and counsellors. They were pharmacists, cultivating healing herbs and exchanging the secrets of their uses. They were midwives, travelling from home to home and village to village. For centuries women were doctors without degrees, barred from books and lectures, learning from each other, and passing on experience from neighbor to neighbor and mother to daughter. They were called “wise women” by the people, witches or charlatans by the authorities. Medicine is part of our heritage as women, our history, our birthright.”

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About the authors: Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022) was a journalist, essayist, social activist and defender of causes – including public health, peace, women’s rights and economic justice – and the author of 21 books. Deirdre English is a journalist who has written and edited work on a wide array of subjects related to investigative reporting, cultural politics, gender studies, and public policy and was a co-founder of one of the first women’s studies programs in the US..

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Active Publishing.
Softback, perfect bound, 82 pages. 
ISBN: 978-1-909798-09-0