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Witches, midwives, and nurses : a history of women healers

Title
Witches, midwives, and nurses : a history of women healers / by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English.
Author
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Publication
  • Old Westbury, N.Y. : The Feminist Press, 1973.
  • New York : Printed by Red Ink

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Additional Authors
  • English, Deirdre
  • Feminist Press, publisher.
Description
45 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
B B B 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.
Series Statement
Glass mountain pamphlet ; no. 1
Uniform Title
Glass mountain pamphlet ; no. 1.
Alternative Title
History of women healers
Subject
  • Women in medicine > History
  • Medicine > United States > History
  • Women healers > United States > History
  • Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
  • Women > United States > History
  • Women physicians
  • Women in medicine
  • Midwifery > history
  • History of Nursing
  • Physicians, Women > history
  • Physicians, Women
  • physicians
  • Women healers
  • Medicine
  • Midwives
  • Nurses
  • Heksen
  • Witchcraft
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Pamphlets.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliography.
ISBN
  • 0912670134
  • 9780912670133
  • 0904665003
  • 9780904665000
LCCN
76354913
OCLC
  • ocm08969783
  • 8969783
  • SCSB-9244024
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library