With insight and originality, Ehrenreich and English relate witch hunts in the Middle Ages to the decline of midwives, and document the emergence of the Popular Health Movement and the current state of medicine in relation to women's rights. In their concerted efforts to become the sole practitioners of scientific medicine, the male barber-surgeons discredited, persecuted, and often killed the wisewomen healers. Urn:oclc:806324981 Scandate 20090908202007 Scanner . Witches, Midwives & Nurses describes the corruption of the medical establishment and its role in demonizing women healers. 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. OL2520829W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 75.00 Pages 56 Ppi 400 Rcamid 324758 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0904665003
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