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A history of women in medicine :

(Number (ISBN

1526714302

(Number (ISBN

1526714310

(Number (ISBN

9781526714305

(Number (ISBN

9781526714312

Erroneous ISBN

1526714299

Erroneous ISBN

9781526714299

Title Proper

A history of women in medicine :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

cunning women, physicians, witches /

First Statement of Responsibility

Sinéad Spearing.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Barnsley, South Yorkshire :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Pen & Sword History,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xvi, 147 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Prologue -- Chapter 1 From the dust of the ground -- Chapter 2 Flesh on the bones -- Chapter 3 The 'doctor's bag' -- Chapter 4 Magically empowered -- Chapter 5 Riddle me this -- Chapter 6 Women only -- Chapter 7 The cult of the goddess -- Chapter 8 Daughters of Eve -- Chapter 9 The problem of truth -- Chapter 10 Smoke and mirrors -- Chapter 11 Physician to witch -- Chapter 12 Sacred space and christian magic -- Chapter 13 The malleus maleficarum -- Chapter 14 Bessie's tale (cunning-women on trial) -- Chapter 15 A very British tradition -- Epilogue -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Plate section.

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Text of Note

This book reveals the untold story of forgotten female physicians, their lives, practices and subsequent demonisation as witches. In this pioneering work, Spearing draws on current archeological evidence, literature, folklore, case studies and original religious documentation to bring to life these forgotten female healers. By doing so she exposes the elaborate conspiracy conceived by the Church to corrupt them in the eyes of the world. Turning these women from benevolent therapists into the embodiment of evil required a fabricated theology to ensure those who collected medicinal herbs or practiced healing, would be viewed by society as dealing with the devil. From this diabolical association, female healers could then be labeled witches and be justly tortured and tried in the ensuinging hysteria know today as th European witch craze. -- Provided by publisher.

Title

History of women in medicine.

International Standard Book Number

1526714299

Herbalists-- History.

Women in medicine-- History.

Herbal Medicine-- history.

History of Medicine.

Physicians, Women-- history.

Witchcraft-- history.

Women-- history.

HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism

HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference

Herbalists.

MEDICAL / Alternative Medicine

MEDICAL / Atlases

MEDICAL / Essays

MEDICAL / Family & General Practice

MEDICAL / Holistic Medicine

MEDICAL / Osteopathy

Women in medicine.

England.

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HEA-- 012000

HEA-- 020000

MED-- 004000

MED-- 029000

MED-- 040000

MED-- 092000

MED-- 101000

MED-- 109000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Book Number

Spearing, Sinéad

Date of Transaction

20200823042148.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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