Women Healers and Physicians
Subtitle: Climbing a Long Hill
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780813120119
Subjects: Illness & addiction: social aspects; Medicine: General Issues; Women's Studies; Sociology Of Medicine; Sociology Of Women; Sociology; Health/Fitness; Women's Studies - History; History; Women in medicine
Description: In this provocative anthology of twelve essays, historians and literary scholars explore the work of women as healers and physicians. The essays range across centuries, nations, and cultures to focus on the ideological and practical obstacles women have faced in the world of medicine. Each examines the situation of women healers in a particular time and place through cases that are emblematic of larger issues and controversies in that period.