Elisabeth Brooke qualified as a Medical Herbalist with the National Institute of Medical Herbalists in 1980. She has a private practice in London and teaches and lectures worldwide. She teaches workshops all over the world, teaching subjects such as herbalism and astrology. She is a guest tutor at Heartwood School of Herbal Medicine and has also tutored in Medical Astrology for the Company and produced articles for their Magazine. Elisabeth has a BA (Hons,) in Classical Studies and is studying for a MA, looking a Greek creation myths.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
Healing in antiquity
CHAPTER TWO
Medicine in the early Middle Ages
CHAPTER THREE
Trotula of Salerno
CHAPTER FOUR
Hildegard of Bingen
CHAPTER FIVE
Women physicians in the late Middle Ages
CHAPTER SIX
The struggle to practise: women healers under threat
CHAPTER SEVEN
Women healers from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century
CHAPTER EIGHT
Women enter the profession: the struggles of nineteenth-century women
doctors
CHAPTER NINE
Persecution through committee
CHAPTER TEN
Women shamans and conjurers
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Radical resistance-women of colour
CHAPTER TWELVE
Twentieth-century pioneers
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Community medicine-pioneering projects
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
End of life care
CONCLUSION
NOTES
RESOURCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
