| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 147 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Women in medicine -- History.
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Herbalists -- History.
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Women -- history. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014930Q000266
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Physicians, Women -- history. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010822Q000266
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Herbal Medicine -- history. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D029001Q000266
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Witchcraft -- history. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018599Q000266
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History of Medicine. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006666
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England. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism.
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference.
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MEDICAL / Alternative Medicine.
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MEDICAL / Atlases.
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MEDICAL / Essays.
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MEDICAL / Family & General Practice.
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MEDICAL / Holistic Medicine.
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MEDICAL / Osteopathy.
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Herbalists. (OCoLC)fst00955320
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Women in medicine. (OCoLC)fst01177924
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Spearing, Sinéad. History of women in medicine. Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2019 1526714299 (OCoLC)1084638159 |
| ISBN |
9781526714312 (electronic book) |
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1526714310 (electronic book) |
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9781526714305 (electronic book) |
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1526714302 (electronic book) |
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