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Woman as Healer

By Jeanne Achterberg

Book information

Publisher
Shambhala
Year
1991
ISBN
9780834828711, 0877734445, 0877736162
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3437399 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-11-04 04:55:55
Christian Nonfiction; New Age; Religion & Spiritua

Description

This groundbreaking work examines the role of women in the Western healing traditions. Drawing on the disciplines of history, anthropology, botany, archaeology, and the behavioral sciences, Jeanne Achterberg discusses the ancient cultures in which women worked as independent and honored healers; the persecution of women healers in the witch hunts of the Middle Ages; the development of midwifery and nursing as women's professions in the nineteenth century; and the current role of women and the state of the healing arts, as a time of crisis in the health-care professions coincides with the reemergence of feminine values.

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