A compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time, this work presents a challenge to orthodox medicine and a history of female wisdom which goes back to the earliest times. What are old wives' tales? Where do they come from? It answers these questions, and more.
Mary Chamberlain is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of a range of academic, editorial and government advisory boards. She has also held visiting professorships at the University of the West Indies and at New York University. She lives in London.
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Reprint. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. Physical description; 240 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects; Traditional medicine Europe. Women healers Europe History. Traditional medicine. Women healers History. Healers; history. Doctors; history. Women doctors; history. 1 Kg. Nº de ref. del artículo: 372640
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