Medicine women
Subtitle: a pictorial history of women healers
By: Elisabeth Brooke.
Publisher: Theosophical Pub. House
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Wheaton, Ill
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Women in medicine; Women healers
Description: Illustrations and text examine the role women have played in medicine--as healers, midwives, doctors, and nurses from ancient times to the 20th century.
Notes: "Chronology": p. 124-126.
Includes index.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: page 7; label: The Goddess as Healer
title: page 13; label: The Healing Church
title: page 27; label: Education
title: page 45; label: Persecution
title: page 63; label: Midwives
title: page 79; label: Public Health: Hospitals
title: page 95; label: Remedies
title: page 113; label: Chronology
title: page 124; label: Index
title: page 127