A powerful exploration of women’s role as healers through the ages and their continuing fight for recognition.

This expanded and updated edition of the classic 1993 title, traces a lineage that spans the centuries in a revisionist history that celebrates women in medicine from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome through to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the present day.

Drawing on primary sources, the lives of revolutionary healers are explored in this comprehensive overview – from Trotula to Hildegard von Bingen, Mary Seacole to Wendy Savage.

Informed by the author’s appreciation of the politics of medicine, this revised edition features brand-new sections on community medicine; indigenous healers; end-of-life care and twentieth-century pioneers such as Rosemary Gladstar, Ina May Gaskin and Louise Hay.

About the Author

Elisabeth Brooke qualified as a Medical Herbalist with the National Institute of Medical Herbalists in 1980. She has a private practice in London and teaches and lectures worldwide. She teaches workshops all over the world, teaching subjects such as herbalism and astrology. She is a guest tutor at Heartwood School of Herbal Medicine and has also tutored in Medical Astrology for the Company and produced articles for their Magazine. Elisabeth has a BA (Hons,) in Classical Studies and is studying for a MA, looking a Greek creation myths.

Book InformationISBN 9781911597230Author Elisabeth BrookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Aeon Books LtdPublisher Aeon Books Ltd