Medicine women : a pictorial history of women healers /
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| Author / Creator: | Brooke, Elisabeth. |
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| Imprint: | Wheaton, Ill. : Theosophical Pub. House, c1997. |
| Description: | 127 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9806927 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Chronology": p. 124-126. Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 127 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0835607518 9780835607513 |
