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  <title><![CDATA[Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Glass Mountain Pamphlets)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&#160;&#160;&#160;Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female practitioners and male professionals. This pamphlet explores two important phases in the male takeover of health care: the suppression of witches in medieval Europe and the rise of the male medical profession in the United States. The authors conclude that despite efforts to exclude them, the resurgence of women as healers should be a long-range goal of the women's movement.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">6</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1972</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Glass Mountain Pamphlets)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Barbara Ehrenreich]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This short pamphlet tells the story of males and the State taking supremacy over medicine, a field traditionally led by women healers. Most interesting to me is the history of the witch-crazes that helped launch capitalism. <br/><br/>From my limited readings (not just this pamphlet), my understand...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57267689">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A brief read packed with a great deal of information.  It will provide you with information on how women have fought to be healers or care providers for centuries often to be thwarted and/or punished by male leaders both political and religious, as well as male professionals.  Knowing much of this i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75012409">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon May 25 14:20:14 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have this book and it served as a good historical foundation in the way midwives were treated historically and presently. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very short but informative read. More of a pamphlet than a book, but gives a great overview of the history of women in medicine. What once was primarily a female healing role (particularly in the realms of birth and obstetrics) was coopted by male-dominated &quot;science.&quot; Eventually even bir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12418278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Deserves more stars than I gave it. It made me angry, probably because it is true.  Packs a punch on the history of women health care providers and how they were edged out by  male &quot;professional&quot; institutionalization of the health care system.  I first got an inkling of this history while ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43236431">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 30 11:12:32 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[can you believe i've actually read this?<br/>i even own it.<br/>i found it at my favourite bookstore, the Bryn Mawr Bookstore, located in Cambridge, MA<br/><br/>(but that's another store-y)<br/>a pun, a pun<br/><br/>ahem.<br/>sorry.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jessica Goodman gave me this booklet, which gives a lot of information about the history of women healers, and how the patriarchy has tried to strip that role from them.  Short, but informative.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not even close to a fair treatment of the facts!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[good info!]]></body>
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