A Biographical Dictionary of Women Healers

Midwives, Nurses, and Physicians

Laurie Scrivener, J. Suzanne Barnes (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2002
Greenwood Press (Verlag)
978-1-57356-219-5 (ISBN)

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Women have always been healers; they have helped each other 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, nursing, and medicine (exclusive of psychiatry), and whose careers were primarily spent in the United States and Canada, from colonial times to the present. For the high school or college student, it will serve as an introduction to the lives of these healers; some students may be inspired to do further research on them or may be inspired to become healers themselves. Women's Studies scholars, biographers, and historians of science, medicine, or nursing, will find the biographies useful starting points for more in-depth research. Each biography provides references for further reading and study.

LAURIE SCRIVENER is Assistant Professor of Bibliography and Social Sciences Reference Librarian at the University of Oklahoma Libraries. Scrivener was a co-editor of the International Biographical Directory of National Archivists, Documentalists, and Librarians, second edition, and has been published in the Journal of Government Information. J. SUZANNE BARNES currently works for Ebsco Subscription Services Inc. in Los Angeles, California. She has worked for the University of Oklahoma Libraries, the Tulsa City-County Library System, the Santa Monica Public Library, and the Gemological Institute of America Library.

Preface Biographies Appendix I: List of Women by Occupation Appendix II: Notable Events Related to Women Healers Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.5.2002
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Hebamme / Entbindungspfleger
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-57356-219-X / 157356219X
ISBN-13	978-1-57356-219-5 / 9781573562195
Zustand	Neuware