Women Healers Through History: Revised and Expanded Edition

Elisabeth Brooke

First published in 1993, Elisabeth Brooke’s powerful exploration of women’s role as healers through the ages and their continuing fight for recognition is now expanded and updated. Tracing a lineage that spans the centuries back to antiquity, this book celebrates women in medicine from Ancient Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the present.

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