A biographical dictionary of women healers

by Laurie Scrivener, Cecelia M. Brown, Dana Tuley-Williams et al.

2002 288 pages eng

"Women have always been healers. They have helped one another through the birthing process, nursed the sick and wounded, and sought cures for illnesses and injuries. This book summarizes the lives of 240 significant or representative women who have engaged in the "core" professions of mid-wifery, nu…