Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Glass Mountain Pamphlets)
This dandy little booklet quickly and concisely explains why it is that 93% of the doctors in this country are men even though women make up 70% of all healthcare workers.  If you assumed that men are the doctors because they were the pioneers of the healing arts, then 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. --FromThe WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by FGP