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Witches, midwives, and nurses : a history of women healers / by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English.
LIBRA R692 .E35 1973bc
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Van Pelt Library R692 .E35 1973b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ehrenreich, Barbara.
- Series:
- Glass mountain pamphlet ; no. 1.
- Glass mountain pamphlet ; no. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in medicine--History.
- Women in medicine.
- History.
- History of Nursing.
- Physicians, Women.
- Nurses.
- Midwifery.
- History of Medicine.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- History of Nursing.
- Physicians, Women.
- Nurses.
- Midwifery.
- History of Medicine.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 48 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Old Westbury, New York : Feminist Press, 1973.
- Summary:
- Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female practitioners and male professionals. This pamphlet explores two important phases in the male takeover of health care: the suppression of witches in medieval Europe and the rise of the male medical profession in the United States. The authors conclude that despite efforts to exclude them, the resurgence of women as healers should be a long-range goal of the women's movement.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 44-45.
- ISBN:
- 0912670134
- OCLC:
- 1041854
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