A Biographical Dictionary of Women Healers: Midwives, Nurses, and Physicians

by Laurie Scrivener, Cecelia M. Brown, J. Suzanne Barnes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157356219X
• ISBN13: 9781573562195
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.3"