Women Healers and Physicians

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.

subjects: Women in medicine,  History,  Women physicians,  44.04 teaching, profession and organizations of medicine,  Geschichte,  Heilberuf,  Heilerin,  Ärztin,  Vrouwelijke artsen,  Beroepspraktijk,  Women physicians in literature,  Frau,  Women,  History of Medicine