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, first published by the Feminist Press in 1973, is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have written an entirely new chapter that delves into the current fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing our fears and fantasies. They build on their classic exposé on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today's changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches.
A bestseller for decades, this contemporary classic gets a substantial new introduction by the authors.
Barbara Ehrenreichis author of the 2002New York TimesbestsellerNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. She has written nearly twenty books, and has been a columnist forTimemagazine and theNew York Times. She has contributed toThe Progressive, Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, Ms., The New Republic, Z Magazine, In These Times,and Salon.com.
Deirdre Englishis the former editor ofMother Jonesmagazine. She has written for theNation, New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Magazine, S.F. Chronicle Sunday Magazine, Vogue, and public radio and television. Currently, English is a professor at University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
This booklet will open your eyes. Barbara Ehrenrich and Deirdre English show how, for reasons of class politics, women's suppression and naked greed, wealthy men discredited, persecuted and outright killed tlăt
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