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Medicine Women: A Pictoral History of Women Healers Paperback – August 1, 1997

by Elisabeth Brooke (Author)
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Women have always been healers -- from the priestess healers in the temples of Isis, to the hedge-witches and herbalists of medieval times, to the physicians, researchers, and alternative practitioners of today. This glorious book celebrates the history of women healers from earliest times to the present. It includes profiles of women healers from all traditions. Some are well known, such as Hildegard of Bingen, Florence Nightingale, and Mary Baker Eddy. Others deserve to be more widely recognized, such as Trotula of Salerno, who wrote gynecological and obstetrical texts in thirteenth-century Italy, and Mama Lola, a respected mambo or healing priestess in the Haitian Voodoo tradition. Text and pictures detail the many contributions of women to the healing arts, from the founding of nursing orders and the tending of soldiers, to the establishment of public health hospitals, to contemporary applications of the ancient lore of herbal medicine and therapeutic touch.
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    128 pages
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    Quest Books
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    August 1, 1997
  5. Dimensions
    7.25 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0835607518
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0835607513
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quest Books; 1st edition (August 1, 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0835607518
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0835607513
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
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MY GRANDDAUGHTER IS INGTERESTED IN THE ADVANCEMENTS WOMEN HAVE MADE IN HISTORY OF MEDICI9NE AND THEN INTO THE PRESENT---THIS BOOK HELPED A LOT.
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I appreciate this book. The mini essays felt quite general to me... but I think that was the point. They clearly presented one inescapable message: Women have been healing for ages untold, and European societies and laws and religions have been actively (often violently) suppressing them for centuries, even at the cost of others' health and well being, and the loss of generational knowledge and techniques. It's a book of facts, data and history, presented quite simply.
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Great book; great service!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and Informative
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I bought this book for my Women in Medicine throughout History class and actually really liked the book. Lots of beautiful old depictions of women in the medicinal studies in history. It was relatively well organized. Some of the information contained in the book was contradicted by my other texts though... Easy read for the most part.
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Some portions seemed like opinion, but overall I enjoyed and learned from this book. I have encouraged my young-teen daughter to read it in hopes she will gain some insight into the struggles women have gone through to give her the rights and freedoms she now enjoys.
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