![]() This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today's changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches. In their concerted efforts to become the sole practitioners of 'scientific medicine,' the male 'barber-surgeons' discredited, persecuted, and often killed the wisewomen healers. They build on their classic exposé on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. 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. In this new and updated edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English delve into the current fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing our fears and fantasies. examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry. ![]() First published by the Feminist Press in 1973, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. ![]() As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment, rooted in witch hunters and the rise of capitalism. ![]()
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