Woman as Healer

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by Jeanne Achterberg

Shambala Publications

Due/Published April 1991, 205 pages, paper

ISBN 0877736162

This work examines the role of the feminine in the Western healing traditions. Drawing upon anthropology, history, botany, archaeology and the behaviorial sciences, Achterberg discusses the ancient cultures in which women worked as honored healers; the persecuted healers of the witch trial era; midwifery and nursing in the 19th century; and the developing healing arts of our time. 10 halftones.