Women Healers In Medieval Life And Literature
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Women Healers In Medieval Life And Literature
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Author : Muriel Joy Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Release Date : 1968
Women Healers In Medieval Life And Literature written by Muriel Joy Hughes and has been published by Beaufort Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Literary Criticism categories.
Mediating Fictions
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Author : Jean Dangler
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2001
Mediating Fictions written by Jean Dangler and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Mediating Fictions examines the variety of strategies that these authors use to deprecate women healers, and in the process, to create early modern "others" to whom the ideal, male physician could be contrasted. Spill, La Celestina, and La Lozana andaluza all attempt to dissuade their readers from seeking the healing service of ordinary women."--BOOK JACKET.
Medicine Women
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Author : Elisabeth Brooke
language : en
Publisher: Quest Books
Release Date : 1997
Medicine Women written by Elisabeth Brooke and has been published by Quest Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Medical categories.
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.
Woman As Healer
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Author : Jeanne Achterberg
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 1990
Woman As Healer written by Jeanne Achterberg and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Women healers categories.
"A panoramic survey of the healing activities of women from prehistori times to the present."--Cover.
A History Of Women In Medicine
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Author : Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead
language : en
Publisher: Haddam, Conn. : The Haddam Press
Release Date : 1938
A History Of Women In Medicine written by Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead and has been published by Haddam, Conn. : The Haddam Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with Medicine categories.
Witches Midwives And Nurses
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Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2010-10
Witches Midwives And Nurses written by Barbara Ehrenreich and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10 with Medical categories.
As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of health care in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, first published by The Feminist Press in 1973, is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have written an entirely new chapter that delves into the current fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing our fears and fantasies. They build on their classic expos on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today's changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches.
Women Healers And Physicians
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Author : Lilian R. Furst
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-12-15
Women Healers And Physicians written by Lilian R. Furst and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-15 with Medical categories.
Women have traditionally been expected to tend the sick as part of their domestic duties; yet throughout history they have faced an uphill struggle to be accepted as healers outside the household. In this provocative anthology, twelve essays by historians and literary scholars explore the work of women as healers and physicians. The essays range across centuries, nations, and cultures to focus on the ideological and practical obstacles women have faced in the world of medicine. Each examines the situation of women healers in a particular time and place through cases that are emblematic of larger issues and controversies in that period. The stories presented here are typical of different but parallel facets of women's history in medicine. The first six concern the controversial relationship between magic and medicine and the perception that women healers can harm or enchant as well as cure. Women frequently were banished to the edges of medical practice because their spiritualism or unorthodoxy was considered a threat to conventional medicine. These chapters focus mainly on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance but also provide continuity to women healers in African American culture of our own time. The second six essays trace women healers' efforts to seek professional standing, first in fifth-century Greece and Rome and later, on a global scale, in the mid-nineteenth century. In addition to actual case studies from Germany, Russia, England, and Australia, these essays consider treatments of women doctors in American fiction and in the writings of Virginia Woolf. Women Healers and Physicians complements existing histories of women in medicine by drawing on varied historical and literary sources, filling gaps in our understanding of women healers and nulling social attitudes about them. Although the contributions differ dramatically, all retain a common focus and create a unique comparative picture of women's struggles to climb the long hill to acceptance in the medical profession.
Forgotten Healers
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Author : Sharon T. Strocchia
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-12-17
Forgotten Healers written by Sharon T. Strocchia and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-17 with History categories.
Winner of the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize A new history uncovers the crucial role women played in the great transformations of medical science and health care that accompanied the Italian Renaissance. In Renaissance Italy women played a more central role in providing health care than historians have thus far acknowledged. Women from all walks of life—from household caregivers and nurses to nuns working as apothecaries—drove the Italian medical economy. In convent pharmacies, pox hospitals, girls’ shelters, and homes, women were practitioners and purveyors of knowledge about health and healing, making significant contributions to early modern medicine. Sharon Strocchia offers a wealth of new evidence about how illness was diagnosed and treated, whether by noblewomen living at court or poor nurses living in hospitals. She finds that women expanded on their roles as health care providers by participating in empirical work and the development of scientific knowledge. Nuns, in particular, were among the most prominent manufacturers and vendors of pharmaceutical products. Their experiments with materials and techniques added greatly to the era’s understanding of medical care. Thanks to their excellence in medicine urban Italian women had greater access to commerce than perhaps any other women in Europe. Forgotten Healers provides a more accurate picture of the pursuit of health in Renaissance Italy. More broadly, by emphasizing that the frontlines of medical care are often found in the household and other spaces thought of as female, Strocchia encourages us to rethink the history of medicine.
Witches Midwives Nurses Second Edition
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Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
language : en
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 2010-07-01
Witches Midwives Nurses Second Edition written by Barbara Ehrenreich and has been published by The Feminist Press at CUNY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-01 with Medical categories.
As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, first published by the Feminist Press in 1973, is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have written an entirely new chapter that delves into the current fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing our fears and fantasies. They build on their classic exposé on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today's changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches.
Women Healers Through History
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Author : Elisabeth Brooke
language : en
Publisher: Aeon Books
Release Date : 2020-04-30
Women Healers Through History written by Elisabeth Brooke and has been published by Aeon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-30 with Medical categories.
First published in 1993, Elisabeth Brooke's powerful exploration of women's role as healers through the ages and their continuing fight for recognition is now expanded and updated. Tracing a lineage that spans the centuries, this revisionist history 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.