Witches, Midwives, and Nurses (2nd Ed.): A History of Women Healers (Contemporary Classics) - Softcover

Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558616616 ISBN 13: 9781558616615

Publisher: THE FEMINIST PRESS CUNY, 2010

Synopsis

First published in 1973, this is an essential work on the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have written an entirely new chapter that delves into the current fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing fears and fantasies. They build on their classic expose on the demonisation of women healers and the political economic monopolisation of medicine. This classic is brought up to date, exploring today's changing attitudes to these issues.

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Review:

"This booklet will open your eyes. Barbara Ehrenrich and Deirdre English show how, for reasons of class politics, women's suppression and naked greed, wealthy men discredited, persecuted and outright killed the wisewomen healers, leaving themselves to be the sole practitioners of their 'scientific' medicine. The information presented here gives a whole new perspective to medical history and points to some of the causes underlying our current healthcare mess."--WomanSource Catalog & Review

About the Author:

Barbara Ehrenreich is author of the 2002 New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. She has written nearly twenty books, and has been a columnist for Time magazine and the New York Times. She has contributed to The Progressive, Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., The New Republic, Z Magazine, In These Times, and Salon.com.

Deirdre English is the former editor of Mother Jones magazine. She has written for the Nation, New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Magazine, S.F. Chronicle Sunday Magazine, Vogue, and public radio and television. Currently, English is a professor at University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

About this edition

• Publisher: THE FEMINIST PRESS CUNY
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1558616616
• ISBN 13: 9781558616615
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 112