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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
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Women have always been healers. They were the unlicensed doctors and anatomists of Western history. They were abortionists, nurses, and counsellors. They were pharmacists, cultivating healing herbs and exchanging the secrets of their uses. They were midwives, travelling from home to home and village to village. For centuries women were doctors without degrees, barred from books and lectures, learning from each other, and passing on experience from neighbor to neighbor and mother to daughter. They were called "wise women" by the people, witches or charlatans by the authorities. Medicine is part of our heritage as women, our history.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ehrenreich, B., & English, D.
- Venue
- Monthly Review
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Foundation
- Published
- 1973-10-02
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 25
- ISSN
- 0027-0520 (ISSN-L)
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- W2066912449
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- 696
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- FWCI
- 42.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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