Elisabeth Brooke

Women Healers Through History

Revised and Expanded Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A powerful exploration of women's role as healers through the ages and their continuing fight for recognition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aeon Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 127mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781911597230
• ISBN-10: 191159723X
• Artikelnr.: 53917453

Autorenporträt

Elisabeth Brooke qualified as a Medical Herbalist with the National Institute of Medical Herbalists in 1980 and as a counsellor at the Psychosynthesis and Education Trust in 1989. She has an online private practice in both disciplines and teaches and lectures worldwide. Elisabeth also has a degree in Classical Studies and was a tutor at the Company of Astrologers London. Her website is www.elisabethbrooke.com.

Inhaltsangabe

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