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ISBN | 9781911597230 |
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Autor | Brooke Elisabeth |
Vydavatel | Aeon Books Ltd |
Vazba | Paperback |
Rok vydání | 2020 |
Počet stran | 216 |
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.