![]() ![]() This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today's changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches. ![]() They build on their classic exposé on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses grew out of the authors’ involvement in the women’s health movement. ![]() In this new and updated edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English delve into the current fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing our fears and fantasies. The pamphlet shows why it is so important for women to discover and analyze their own history, both to help debunk myths and to gain new insights into their struggles today. Genre/Form: History: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Ehrenreich, Barbara. First published by the Feminist Press in 1973, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment, rooted in witch hunters and the rise of capitalism. ![]()
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