Brooke Elisabeth Women Healers Through History

<p><strong>A powerful exploration of women''s role as healers through the ages and their continuing fight for recognition.</strong></p><p>This expanded and updated edition of the classic 1993 title, traces a lineage that spans the centuries in a revisionist history that celebrates women in medicine from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome through to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the present day.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p> </p>