Medicine Women : A Pictorial History of Women Healers

Medicine Women : A Pictorial History of Women Healers

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Book Description
...celebrates the history of women healers from earliest times to the present...includes profiles of such healers as Hildegarde of Bingen, Florence Nightingale, and Mary Baker Eddy...with full-color design and over 100 illustrations.

Card catalog description
In this history of women healers, Elisabeth Brooke explores their role from the early hospitals of medieval Europe to the battlefields of the Crimea, from the place of the Goddess Isis in Egyptian medical lore to the healing rituals of Mama Lola, a Voodoo priestess in New York City.

Medicine Women: A Pictorial History of Women Healers,Elisabeth Brooke,Quest Books,0835607518,General,History,Medical,Medicine (Specific Aspects),Sociology,Women In Science,Women healers,Women in medicine,Women's Studies - History,Medicine: General Issues,Non-Classifiable,Science: General Issues,Women's studies

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