The suppression of female healers by the medical establishment was a political struggle, first, in that it is part of the history of sex struggle in general. The status of women healers has risen and fallen with the status of women. When women healers were attacked, they were attacked as women; when they fought back, they fought back in solidarity with all women.It is a political struggle, second, in that it was part of a class struggle. Women healers were people’s doctors, and their medicine was part of a people’s subculture.
This pamphlet represents a beginning of the research which will have to be done to recapture our history as health workers. We confined ourselves to western history, since the institutions we confront today are the products of western civilization.To know our history is to begin to see how to take up the struggle again.
Book is manually bound in small series of 30 in each print-run. All books are numbered.I do design, layout of the book, print them at digital printer and then do the whole binding process, from cutting it into right format, putting it all together and trimming it to final size. Most of the work is manual, with help of 120 years old manual paper-cutter and paper creasing machine.
Binding: paperbackSize: 105 x 99 mm
Number of pages: 90