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Book: Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Quotes of Book: Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A
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  1. Barbara Ehrenreich _ Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A

    WITCHES LIVED AND WERE BURNED LONG BEFORE the development of modern medical technology. The great majority of them were lay healers serving the peasant population, and their suppression marks one of the opening struggles in the history of man's suppression of women as healers. The other side of the suppression of witches as healers was the creation of a new male medical profession, under the protection and patronage of the ruling classes. This new European medical profession played an important role in the witch hunts, supporting the witches' persecutors with "medical" reasoning:
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  2. Barbara Ehrenreich _ Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A

    Six witnesses affirmed that Jacoba had cured them, even after numerous doctors had given up, and one patient declared that she was wiser in the art of surgery and medicine than any master physician or surgeon in Paris. But these testimonials were used against her, for the charge was not that she was incompetent, but that-as a woman-she dared to cure at all.
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  3. Barbara Ehrenreich _ Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A

    We were not supposed to know anything about our own bodies or to participate in decision-making about our own care.
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