Witches, Midwives, and Nurses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Witches, Midwives, and Nurses write by Barbara Ehrenreich. This book was released on 1973. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book looks at the history of medical practice, argues that the suppression of female healers began with the European witch hunts, and describes the sexism of the current medical establishment.
Medicine Women
Medicine Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medicine Women write by Elisabeth Brooke. This book was released on 1997. Medicine Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
All Women Are Healers
All Women Are Healers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All Women Are Healers write by Diane Stein. This book was released on 2011-03-02. All Women Are Healers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “By the study, experimentation and practice of natural healing, women are changing and charting the future of health care. Despite heavy resistance or lack of recognition from patriarchal medicine, they are nevertheless making positive changes that will continue and increase. Women’s emphasis on one-to-one work practiced in mutual agreement and participation is very different from mechanized and big-money medicine, and has results and successes far beyond expectations. The emphasis on self-healing returns health care to the consumer, to women’s lives and bodies, for the first time in centuries. The medical system cannot control a movement held in the hands of women, though it may try. Women are taking control again of healing, our daughter-right, for the first time since the matriarchies and the Inquisition.”—from the Introduction
Woman as Healer
Woman as Healer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Woman as Healer write by Jeanne Achterberg. This book was released on 1991-03-13. Woman as Healer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking work examines the role of women in the Western healing traditions. Drawing on the disciplines of history, anthropology, botany, archaeology, and the behavioral sciences, Jeanne Achterberg discusses the ancient cultures in which women worked as independent and honored healers; the persecution of women healers in the witch hunts of the Middle Ages; the development of midwifery and nursing as women's professions in the nineteenth century; and the current role of women and the state of the healing arts, as a time of crisis in the health-care professions coincides with the reemergence of feminine values.
Women Healers
Women Healers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Healers write by Elisabeth Brooke. This book was released on 1995-10. Women Healers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering a provocative reconstruction of the history of women's healing practices, Brooke argues that the medieval image of the healer as witch was deliberately constructed by Church officials to discredit women's powers. In its place she provides a more accurate picture of these innovative, compassionate, and capable practitioners.
