Paperback, 48 pages
English language
Published June 5, 1972 by The Feminist Press.
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
A History of Women Healers Glass Mountain pamphlet, #1
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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.
Subjects
- General practice
- History of medicine
- Social history
- Women's studies
- United States
- History
- History - General History
- Medicine
- Women healers
- Gender Studies
- General
- Health & Fitness / General
- Women in medicine