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Author:   Elisabeth Brooke
Publisher:   Aeon Books Ltd
Imprint:   Aeon Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781911597230

ISBN 10:   191159723
Pages:   364
Publication Date:   30 April 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE Healing in antiquity CHAPTER TWO Medicine in the early Middle Ages CHAPTER THREE Trotula of Salerno CHAPTER FOUR Hildegard of Bingen CHAPTER FIVE Women physicians in the late Middle Ages CHAPTER SIX The struggle to practise: women healers under threat CHAPTER SEVEN Women healers from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century CHAPTER EIGHT Women enter the profession: the struggles of nineteenth-century women doctors CHAPTER NINE Persecution through committee CHAPTER TEN Women shamans and conjurers CHAPTER ELEVEN Radical resistance—women of colour CHAPTER TWELVE Twentieth-century pioneers CHAPTER THIRTEEN Community medicine—pioneering projects CHAPTER FOURTEEN End of life care CONCLUSION NOTES RESOURCES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Elisabeth Brooke qualified as a medical herbalist with the National Institute of Medical Herbalists in 1980 and trained as a psychosynthesis counselor at the Psychosynthesis and Education Trust in London. She also opened and ran a training clinic for herbal students in London and worked in private practice specializing in clients from the arts. At present she divides her time between Santo Domingo and London.

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