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Title: Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ISBN: 0-912670-13-4 Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY Pub. Date: December, 1973 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Classic and worth reading
Comment: For any one interested in women's history and in the real idea of "total history" from the Annales school, this book is a must. Of course is not perfect, what it is? However it is time to recover our past, and for that we have to depart from a different perspective, even if it is threatening and contested by some.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book that is old but still dear to my heart
Comment: Witches, Midwives, and Nurses hardly qualifies as a 'book;' it's more like a large booklet. But in its brevity, it manages to explain part of the answer to how our current health care disaster has come to pass. Written in 1973, this book was perfectly timed to coincide with the era of feminism, drastic changes in women's health, and the rise of midwifery as a once-again quasi-respected profession in the US. I am a nurse and a midwife, and I recently attended a book signing for Ehrenreich's Nickle and Dimed. When I set my dog-eared copy of WMN in front of her, she folded her hands in her lap and sat still. Then she placed her hand flat on the book, looked up at me with glistening eyes, and said, "Oh. Oh, my dear. This is - and probably always will be - my favorite of all the things I've written."
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is a scholarly history of how male doctors came to take over power and control of the healing arts, traditionally the domain of women. In their concerted efforts to become the sole practitioners of 'scientific medicine,' the male 'barber-surgeons' discredited, persecuted, and often killed the wisewomen healers. Spanning the time from the medieval years to the Sixties, it throws the entire course of medical history into a new light.
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is a MUST READ for anyone remotely involved in health care - and that includes everyone, because we are all consumers, if not practitioners. My 80yo father ate it up one afternoon, and that's saying a lot.
Rating: 4
Summary: Witches, Midwives and Nurses
Comment: This is a short book on a history of women healers. It was recommended reading in a graduate nursing course on nursing knowledge development. It gave an overview of women healers including witches and midwives up until present-day nursing. The book is written from a feminist perspective, which adds new insights. I recommend that all nurses read this book to challenge themselves. Although written in the 1970's, it is worthwhile to read another's passionate point of view.
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Title: For Her Own Good : 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ISBN: 0385126514 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ISBN: 0912670207 Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Women Healers: Portraits of Herbalists, Physicians, and Midwives by Elisabeth Brooke ISBN: 0892815485 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Birth Chairs, Midwives and Medicine by Amanda Carson Banks ISBN: 1578061725 Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Woman as Healer by Jeanne Achterberg ISBN: 0877736162 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 13 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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