Jeanne AchterbergWoman as HealerPublisher information:Shambhala, Boston, 1990, first edition, ISBN: 0877734445
Description and condition: Black cloth hardback with dustcover, 6 by 9 inch (8vo), 241 pp., index, bibliography, b/w illustrations. Very good or better with nice bright clean pages throughout. In good dustcover with light edgewear.
Contents: A panoramic survey of the healing activities of women from prehistoric times to the present. Chapters are: medicine woman: the ancient cosmic connection; the primeval turning points; Sumer: the birth and death of a culture; Denmark: women as shaman; the healing legacy from Greece; women of Rome; brilliant early Christian flowering; Medieval Christian cosmology. Woman and the genesis of scientific thought: the tapestry; women healers as heretics; philosophic foundation; fate of the wise women; absent at the birth of modern medicine. Women and the professionalization of the healing arts: gender and the health professions; midwifery: the mysterious office; every women her own doctor: the popular health movement; the warriors: doctors, nurses and ministers. 20th Century women and the state of the healing arts and sciences: woman as health-care provider: realities of the marketplace; life in the balance.
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