Asian Women Healers: A Biographical Dictionary, 2600 Bce to Today, (Paperback)

<p> Though medical institutions have been historically male-dominated, women healers have played a crucial role in medical and scientific innovation for thousands of years. Across the world, women have circumvented patriarchal devaluation and barriers to higher education to master curative methods from aromatherapy to modern surgery. The sometimes-obscure successes of wet nurses, medics, pharmacists, and midwives illuminate the lives of women who fought for gender equity in the medical field to make their mark on wellness.</p><p> This biographical dictionary of Asian women healers chronicles the high points of female contributions to well-being for more than two and a half millennia of documented service. Through profiles of 180 individuals from 2600 B.C.E to the present, it traces the history of innovative female healers who overcame adversity and improvised new equipment and pharmaceuticals in times of hardship. In women's hands, technological lifesavers--COVID immunization, in vitro fertilization, air transport to hospitals, examination of the human heart during space travel--continue to increase the longevity and quality of human life.</p>

• Asian Women Healers: A Biographical Dictionary, 2600 Bce to Today, (Paperback)
• Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
• ISBN: 9781476659695
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2027-07-01
• Page Count: 222